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On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 11:23:41AM -0600, Cesar Alvarez wrote:
> Good day everyone
> 
> I got a question, what are the differences of SQL_ASCII and UTF8, witch 
> one should i use??

Well, SQL_ASCII means basically that what you put in you get out, but
the DB is going treat it as ASCII, umlauts/etc simply won't be
recognised. UTF8 means the DB will check your data is properly
represented and make an effort to handle case-sensetivity and such
things for you.

Have a nice day,
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