> I'd say you should first decide if you really need Unicode. If you're
> dealing exclusively with English/French/Spanish/German or so and if
> you're pretty sure you'll never touch Polish/Russian/Chinese, you can
> stick to Latin-1 or Latin-9 and happily ignore Unicode.
But wouldn't it be better to pick unicode just in case? Or would Latin-1 /
Latin-9 perform better, compared to Unicode?
Alexander Priem
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