Re: [GENERAL] CHAR SETS

2007-10-15 Thread Gregory Stark
"Albe Laurenz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Cesar Alvarez wrote: >> I got a question, what are the differences of SQL_ASCII and UTF8, witch >> one should i use?? > SQL_ASCII is ASCII without encoding checks, UTF8 is UTF-8. > I think that you should use UTF8. Pros: UTF8 will let you handle other

Re: [GENERAL] CHAR SETS

2007-10-15 Thread Albe Laurenz
Cesar Alvarez wrote: > I got a question, what are the differences of SQL_ASCII and UTF8, witch > one should i use?? SQL_ASCII is ASCII without encoding checks, UTF8 is UTF-8. I think that you should use UTF8. Yours, Laurenz Albe ---(end of broadcast)--

Re: [GENERAL] CHAR SETS

2007-10-13 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 11:23:41AM -0600, Cesar Alvarez wrote: > Good day everyone > > I got a question, what are the differences of SQL_ASCII and UTF8, witch > one should i use?? Well, SQL_ASCII means basically that what you put in you get out, but the DB is going treat it as ASCII, umlauts/etc