RE: Re: Which Character set?

We use WE8ISO8859P1 as a corporate standard for all databases globally with no problem. Haven't tried UTF8 yet though.

Jim

"Ron Thomas" <rthomas_at_hypercom.com> wrote:

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>Unless you have the need to support other languages other than English or need to
>support characters
>like the Euro, don't bother. You would not believe the pains we are having here
>trying to get UTF8
>working correctly... WE8ISO8859P1 or P15 might be a choice for you. See what other
>listers have to
>say.
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>Ron Thomas
>Hypercom, Inc
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>I have always used US7ASCII character set. I am creating a new server and
>database for an existing production application and I was wondering if I
>should be using one of the newer character sets. Is there a newer character
>set that would still work with the old application data?
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>Ron Smith
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