Hi,

> At the moment my design-database uses characerset "NONE".
> I'm planning to use it only in a windows environment. What is the
> best design solution: using "NONE" or selecting a characterset?
>
> And if so, what's the preferable character set in a windows
> environment (language: dutch ) ?

For dutch i can advice you ISO8859_1 COLLATE DU_NL.
Then you have also case-insensitive ORDERS (not search !)

Regards,
Arno Brinkman