Jim Starkey wrote:

>You may have a point; there are many more Chinese than Europeans, so a
>global optimization suggests that a bias towards larger character sets
>is warranted. But the distribution of current users heavily favor the
>latin character distribution, and single bytes are a lot easier to
>handle than shorts. If the favor of hard questions, go for simplicity.
>

Why choose one side if all can be satisfied?
Some people are inteligent enough to set the character set of your
fields. ;-)


Adriano