I am wondering if somebody here can tell me the difference between UTF-8 and SQL-ASCII, whether there are any benefits of converting SQL-ASCII to UTF-8? If so, under what circumstances do we want to convert to UTF-8? Thanks,
Perhaps others can comment on encoding versus type of data. I would add that the manner in which data are accessed may also be a consideration. Specifically, UTF-8 is a good choice if one is going to use JDBC.
