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FHIR String Data Type Conversion #8

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pkjordan opened this issue Sep 9, 2018 · 2 comments
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FHIR String Data Type Conversion #8

pkjordan opened this issue Sep 9, 2018 · 2 comments

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pkjordan commented Sep 9, 2018

Need to consider the use of NVARCHAR, rather than plain VARCHAR. For example, both the US and International Editions of the SNOMED CT clinical coding system contain terms that can only rendered correctly in Unicode.

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rbrush commented Sep 9, 2018

Good point...all text should be represented as unicode.

I'll plan on replacing all VARCHAR references with NVARCHAR to make this explicit, and databases can use that or an equivalent for those that don't directly support it.

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rbrush commented Sep 11, 2018

Took a pass at this in the above commit. We can add further clarification if that would help as well.

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