On 4/26/06, Prasanth <dbadmin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? Perhaps you are confusing UTF-8 and UTF-16? UTF-8 is a strict superset of ASCII with the same physical encoding for ASCII characters. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8 (and BTW, your email address bounced)
