Importing Text In SQL Server

Apr 23, 2006

I need to import a large textfile into sql server 2005.
Some of the text fields contain special characters...like:






Île-de-France
when I import a text like this into SQL Server I get:
ÃŽle-de-France

What can I do to prevent this from happening? (other fieldtype?)

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