On 3-12-2012 17:17, Fabiano wrote:

> I would like to put a note here for other people who are planning to use
> UTF-8 charsets and ci/ai collations.
>
> The tests i realized before (in a previous message) didn't show the real
> numbers.

<snip differences which indeed seem large>

> So, unless there are some plans to improve UTF8 searchs a lot in next
> firebird versions, for now i think it's a risk to use this charset if
> your project will need to use SQL instructions like above.

Of course, /not/ using UTF8 if you need to support multiple
alphabets/character sets now or in future is also a risk to your project.

As always you have to weigh advantages & disadvantages....

Regards,
Reinier