Re: UTFB

From: Galen Boyer <galenboyer_at_hotpop.com>
Date: 25 Nov 2002 10:38:23 -0600
Message-ID: <ubs4d1uaq.fsf@standardandpoors.com>

On 25 Nov 2002, kuku_at_accms33.physik.rwth-aachen.de wrote:
> I'm gonna visit a site for doing some DB installation. The
> customers administrator wants to install UTFB as language

                                           ^^^^

I think he probably said UTF8.

> as he says.
>
> What implications could that have? Advantages/disadvantages?
> Are there any incompatibilities to be extpected?

Not many. It is the multi-byte character set, so the ascii character set is still supported as is.

The advantage is that you can store Asian characters and other such multi-byte character languages in the same database columns as the ascii ones.

-- 
Galen Boyer

Received on Mon Nov 25 2002 - 10:38:23 CST