Damn You Unicode!

[doc hawk]

I’m thinking that possibly there is a violated assumption as to what the other end is using within that, yes. 

Or that the other end makes an assumption, and puts the “wrong” type back in.

Which kind of SQL server is that?  Microsofts?

I can probably rig access to my Postgres server if you need to try it for a test case.

(It would probably do me good to remember how that works :)