Re: [GENERAL] SQL ASCII encoding

2006-04-11 Thread Richard Jones
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 10:15:18PM +0200, Harald Fuchs wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Martijn van Oosterhout writes: > > > As a british user, latin9 will cover most of your needs, unless > > ofcourse someone wants to enter their name in chinese :) > > Since british users don't use Fr

Re: [GENERAL] SQL ASCII encoding

2006-04-05 Thread Harald Fuchs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Martijn van Oosterhout writes: > As a british user, latin9 will cover most of your needs, unless > ofcourse someone wants to enter their name in chinese :) Since british users don't use French OE ligatures or Euro currency signs, even latin1 would do. --

Re: [GENERAL] SQL ASCII encoding

2006-04-05 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 01:35:00PM +, Frank Church wrote: > > My databases are created in SQL ASCII by default. > > Is there some disadvantage to this? As a British user, which is the preferred > character set and what advantage do I have to gain by using it?database SQL ASCII just means tha

[GENERAL] SQL ASCII encoding

2006-04-05 Thread Frank Church
My databases are created in SQL ASCII by default. Is there some disadvantage to this? As a British user, which is the preferred character set and what advantage do I have to gain by using it?database ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9'