--TEST-- Insert binary HEX data then fetch it back as string --DESCRIPTION-- Insert binary HEX data into an nvarchar field then read it back as UTF-8 string --SKIPIF-- --FILE-- "nvarchar(100)")); $input = pack("H*", '49006427500048005000'); // I'LOVE_SYMBOL'PHP $result; $stmt = insertRow($conn, $tableName, array("c1" => new BindParamOp(1, $input, "PDO::PARAM_STR", 0, "PDO::SQLSRV_ENCODING_BINARY")), "prepareBindParam", $result); if (!$result) { echo "Failed to insert!\n"; dropTable($conn, $tableName); unset($stmt); unset($conn); exit; } $stmt = $conn->query("SELECT * FROM $tableName"); $utf8 = $stmt->fetchColumn(); echo "$utf8\n"; dropTable($conn, $tableName); unset($stmt); unset($conn); } catch (PDOException $e) { var_dump($e->errorInfo); } print "Done"; ?> --EXPECT-- I❤PHP Done