Maximiliano Robaina wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is UTF-8 a recommendable charset to store occidental language like
> spanish for example ?
> I am going to attack a firebird 2.0 database using python languaje,
> which do very intensive use of utf-8 by default.
>
> I will be thankful any suggestion.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> M.
>
>

I use ISO8859_1 for portuguese, don think spanish should have any
significant differences.

I never used MBCS (UTF, Unicode and so on) I know FB 2.0 has a lot of
improvements on this area, but could not say in practice what the
difference are.

see you !

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