title: "UTF-16 Support in SQL Server Native Client 11.0 | Microsoft Docs" ms.custom: "" ms.date: "03/14/2017" ms.prod: "sql" ms.prod_service: "database-engine, sql-database, sql-data-warehouse, pdw" ms.service: "" ms.component: "native-client|features" ms.reviewer: "" ms.suite: "sql" ms.technology:
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[!INCLUDEappliesto-ss-asdb-asdw-pdw-md] [!INCLUDESNAC_Deprecated]
Beginning in [!INCLUDEssSQL11], if you supply a fixed-length buffer when binding a column result or output parameter and if the wchar character written into the buffer before the terminating character is a high surrogate code point of a surrogate pair, and if the next wchar character is a low surrogate code point, [!INCLUDEssNoVersion] Native Client will not add the high surrogate code point to the buffer.