Re: What's a good default encoding?

From: "Junaili Lie" <junaili(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Michael Schmidt" <michaelmschmidt(at)msn(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, CSN <cool_screen_name90001(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Subject: Re: What's a good default encoding?
Date: 2006-03-16 01:32:26
Message-ID: 8d04ce990603151732k6437e0ach50493eea6ae45e81@mail.gmail.com
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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,

On 3/15/06, Michael Schmidt <michaelmschmidt(at)msn(dot)com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> Michael Schmidt
>

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