On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Milan Babuskov <milanb@...> wrote:

> josef_gschwendtner wrote:
>> German characters mostly have ASCII < 7F. With UTF8 these characters
>> have the same storage size as in WIN1252, right?
>
> Only when represented in UTF8 form. However, Firebird internally
> represents them as 4-bytes-per-character internally.

That is odd.
What is the point of having UTF8 as an option if internally it uses
the same space as Unicode? Am I missing something?

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