Escaping International (unicode) Characters In String

Y'all:

I am needing some way, in the SQL Server dialect of SQL, to escape unicode
code points that are embedded within an nvarchar string in a SQL script,
e.g. in Java I can do:

String str = "This is au1245 test.";

in Oracle's SQL dialect, it appears that I can accomplish the same thing:

INSERT INTO TEST_TABLE (TEST_COLUMN) VALUES ('This is a1245 test.");


I've googled and researched through the MSDN, and haven't discovered a
similar construct in SQL Server. I am already aware of the UNISTR()
function, and the NCHAR() function, but those aren't going to work well if
there are more than a few international characters embedded within a
string.

Does anyone have a better suggestion?

Thanks muchly!
GRB

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