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Advantages - if any of - of us ascii7 charset over ascii western european

From: andrew <calbloke_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 19 Nov 2002 08:50:58 -0800
Message-ID: <9256b7c4.0211190850.29300d84@posting.google.com>

What , if any, is the advantage of defining a DB characterset as Ascii 7-bit (US Ascii) over Ascii 8-bit (western european) ?

Both require a single byte for storage but the 8-bit allows you to store umlauts etc correctly

Thanks Received on Tue Nov 19 2002 - 10:50:58 CST

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