Tables and columns name can contain accented words?

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Hornet77 - 20 Feb 2008 16:46 GMT

In my language, Italian language, we have words with accent, for example
"città" or "perchè"; can I create tables or columns in sql server with
names that contain letters with the accent (i.e. "à" "è" "ì" "ò" "ù")?
Is this absolutely not recommended? Or is it an acceptable practice?

Thanks in advance.

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Rad [Visual C# MVP] - 28 Feb 2008 21:36 GMT

> In my language, Italian language, we have words with accent, for example
> "città" or "perchè"; can I create tables or columns in sql server with
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> Best regards.

Personally, I would imagine that if this is possible it would be more
trouble than its worth in terms of maintanability. You could get strange
errors for instance if you scripted a database to a text file that lost the
accents

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