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From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: New database: SQL_ASCII vs UTF-8 trade-offs
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In response to New database: SQL_ASCII vs UTF-8 trade-offs  (ow <oneway_111@yahoo.com>)
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Am Dienstag, 7. März 2006 15:08 schrieb ow:
> Are there any negative effects related to the selection of UTF-8 over
> SQL_ASCII (e.g. size of the database, sort/like/group issues, etc)?

If you're only planning to store ASCII data, choosing UTF-8 will not cause any
additional problems.  But obviously you're more future-proof that way.

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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