Re: UTFB

Galen Boyer <galenboyer_at_hotpop.com> wrote:
> 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.

So it doesn't affect the client side? Assumed you have 8 bit or 7 bit ASCCI stored in VARCHARS or something and insert the data through a client it wouldn't matter whether the database is setup with UTF-8. Fine.

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Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kukulies_at_rwth-aachen.de