Re: What's a good default encoding?

["Junaili Lie" <junaili@xxxxxxxxx>]

I am wondering if somebody here can tell me the difference between
UTF-8 and SQL-ASCII, whether there are any benefits of converting
SQL-ASCII to UTF-8? If so, under what circumstances do we want to
convert to UTF-8?
Thanks,

On 3/15/06, Michael Schmidt <michaelmschmidt@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Perhaps others can comment on encoding versus type of data.  I would add that the manner in which data are accessed may also be a consideration.  Specifically, UTF-8 is a good choice if one is going to use JDBC.

 

Michael Schmidt