-- The @position variable holds the position of the character currently
-- being processed. The @nstring variable is the Unicode character
-- string to process.
DECLARE @position int, @nstring nchar(9)
-- Initialize the current position variable to the first character in
-- the string.
SET @position = 1
-- Initialize the character string variable to the string to process.
-- Notice that there is an N before the start of the string. This
-- indicates that the data following the N is Unicode data.
SET @nstring = N'København'
-- Print the character number of the position of the string you are at,
-- the actual Unicode character you are processing, and the UNICODE
-- value for this particular character.
PRINT 'Character #' + ' ' + 'Unicode Character' + ' ' + 'UNICODE Value'
WHILE @position <= DATALENGTH(@nstring)
BEGIN
SELECT @position,
NCHAR(UNICODE(SUBSTRING(@nstring, @position, 1))),
CONVERT(NCHAR(17), SUBSTRING(@nstring, @position, 1)),
UNICODE(SUBSTRING(@nstring, @position, 1))
SELECT @position = @position + 1
END
GO