Hello Jim,

JS> 1. The database engine itself is strictly utf8 only. Character set

I`m not an expert, but from my expirience, working in pure UTF8 is not
a good idea - it is slow. May be any binary Unicode format is better?
Or speed is not a goal at all?

P.S. All our texts are in UTF8 (because of 2 languages required by
default - romanian and russian). Sometimes it is a pain.


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Sergey mailto:serj@...