what is the character encoding of vs2005/2008?

[newpat]

I use the program which is made by vs2008 C#.net to type the chinese character and then save to mssql database. I can successfully see the chinese in sql browser, but when I use php and using utf-8 to get the chinese back, and there is Mojibake. So, what is the charset of my web?

[mendhak]

The encoding of the application Visual Studio is not the problem, Visual Studio is simply the IDE in which you create applications. If you're displaying non-English characters, then you should set the document's CharSet in the HTML. What have you set the current charset to?

[newpat]

I thought mssql cannot save chinese character or utf-8/big5 b4...I think it is wrong now.

My webpage using charset=utf-8:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

[newpat]

Does anyone know?

[dilettante]

Maybe start here: Understanding Encodings?