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title: "UTF-16 Support in OLE DB Driver for SQL Server| Microsoft Docs"
description: "UTF-16 Support in OLE DB Driver for SQL Server"
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# UTF-16 Support in OLE DB Driver for SQL Server
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[!INCLUDE[Driver_OLEDB_Download](../../../includes/driver_oledb_download.md)]

  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, OLE DB Driver for SQL Server will not add the high surrogate code point to the buffer.  
  
## See Also  
 [OLE DB Driver for SQL Server Features](../../oledb/features/oledb-driver-for-sql-server-features.md)