Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote:

>Jim Starkey wrote:
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>>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.
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>Why choose one side if all can be satisfied?
>Some people are inteligent enough to set the character set of your
>fields. ;-)
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I have no problem setting the character set of fields to indicate a
default collation. But that doesn't necessarily have anything to do
with the way the database stores things internally. People give numbers
in ascii decimal; surely you don't object to storing them in binary?

I think our goal should be to simplify and speed up the database
engine. If there isn't a pressing to need to maintain multiple
character sets within the engine, it's something we can and should forgo
in favor of simplicity.