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# UTF-16 Support in SQL Server Native Client 11.0
  Beginning in [!INCLUDE[ssSQL11](../../../includes/sssql11-md.md)], 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, [!INCLUDE[ssNoVersion](../../../includes/ssnoversion-md.md)] Native Client will not add the high surrogate code point to the buffer.  
  
## See Also  
 [SQL Server Native Client Features](sql-server-native-client-features.md)