Subject Re: [firebird-support] Firebird 2.1 Character sets and collation
Author Kjell Rilbe
Ian A. Newby wrote:

> I've been trying to find out what the recommended character set is for
> 2.1. The data is 99.9% English but I would like to use some
> case-insensitive collations.
>
> What would you recommended I choose as my default character set?
>
> I mainly connect using JBird.

*Personally* I'd switch to UTF8 and once and for all stop worrying about
character sets. If you use Unicode, your database can store everything
you throw at it. But you'll have to make sure your client software works
with it of course.

Kjell
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