Re: UTF-8 collation on Windows?

On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 12:14 AM, Gavin Flower <
GavinFlower(at)archidevsys(dot)co(dot)nz> wrote:

> On 21/02/14 02:04, Dev Kumkar wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 3:04 AM, Gavin Flower <
> GavinFlower(at)archidevsys(dot)co(dot)nz> wrote:
>
>> Upgrade servers to Linux? :-P
>>
>
> Actually that's not the solution but running away from it.
> There is a heavy footprint of customers and huge market on windows too and
> so not that easy to migrate and convince in market.
>
> Regards...
>
> I am aware of the heavy presence of Microsoft in the market place and the
> huge inertia of Microsoft dominated companies (even where management would
> like to change), hence I was not trying to push upgrading to Linux too
> strongly for this particular situation - more light hearted exasperation!
>
> None-the-less there are more and more companies making that move - as
> there are a whole raft of very good reasons to do so.
>
> If the sole reason for going to Linux was the collation problem, then it
> would probably be considered by most people to be a silly reason.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Gavin
>
>
> P.S. Once a Senior Systems Analyst left the company I was working for to
> become the DP manager of an IT department. I spoke to him shortly after
> and he said it was an 'IBM shop' - about ten years later he was at the same
> place, but he now said it was a 'Microsoft shop'. The dominant technology
> that appears set in stone, does eventually change despite the market
> inertia - my first commercial languages were FORTRAN & COBOL on
> minicomputers & IBM style mainframes, now I use Java on Linux.
>

Hmm. Don't want to digress here and loose the topic context.
Here would really appreciate if there are any suggestions for UTF-8
collation on Windows?

Regards...