The "brilliant" proposal has missing some things.

For *all* current FB users (who that don't depent on broken UNICODE_FSS)
will cause these problems:

1) Slow (because conversions will always be made).
2) Break all UDFs that use strings.
3) Break all external tables.
4) Don't simplify the engine because conversions between charsets is
done like conversions between numbers and strings.
5) Waste of disk space and memory.

(2) and (3) will make users to say: "Where this garbage come from?"

Continue thinking. You'll found more problems.


Adriano