Take the tour ×  I just received a bunch of Chinese characters
back from the localization people in Excel spreadsheet format.
When I import the data into my SQL Server 2005 table (nvarchar
columns) it displays as a bunch of boxes instead of the actual
characters. I'm thinking this isn't right. Does anyone have an
idea why it would be behaving this way?  EDIT: The data is still
represented in the boxes somehow. When I load the data into my
application and bind it to a UI element it displays correctly as
Chinese. The issue I am having is that if I initiate a
messagebox.show using the Chinese characters I still get the
boxes and I can't help but think this is related to the boxes I
am seeing in the DB.  share|improve this question font
installation would be my guess. Excel knows how to handle, but
sql Server doesn't. –  Limey May 25 '12 at 20:45 i was going to
also suggest the font being used by SQM Server Management
Studio. Perhaps try connecting Excel back to SQL Server data
source and see if Excel displays th