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From Adrian Klaver
Subject Re: converting databases form SQL_ASCII to UTF8
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Msg-id 201104220827.52116.adrian.klaver@gmail.com
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In response to converting databases form SQL_ASCII to UTF8  (Geoffrey Myers <lists@serioustechnology.com>)
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On Friday, April 22, 2011 8:00:08 am Geoffrey Myers wrote:

>
> What is the harm in leaving our databases SQL_ASCII encoded?

SQL_ASCII is basically no encoding. The world is slowly but surely moving to
Unicode, sooner or later you are going to hit the unknown encoding/Unicode wall.
Probably better to get it over with now.

>
> Thanks for any insights.

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Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@gmail.com

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