On 1 Mar 2005 at 11:05, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote:

>> Conversion into certain data charset is required only when data
>>leave engine.
>>
>This is very abstract. When data leave the engine? What is all these
>places?

Y-valve, EXT and FUN. May be REMOTE instead of Y-valve.

>>>5) Waste of disk space and memory.
>>
>> That's the only weighty argument.
>>
>And waste of network band.

No if network traffic use client-asked character set.
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SY, Dimitry Sibiryakov.