Hi, Seems like by default database is created using UTF-8 when we use createdb in 8.1.3. Is there any big advantage of using UTF-8 rather than ASCII? Will there be any performance difference when performing string operations? Does the string functions convert every thing to UTF-8 before performing the operations? Surely it is going to increase by database size if we switch to UTF-8. All the characters in my database should be ASCII. I use JDBC so will there be any performance gain as the JDBC does not have to perform the conversion? Thanks, -Prasanth.
