Cesar Alvarez wrote: > I got a question, what are the differences of SQL_ASCII and UTF8, witch > one should i use?? SQL_ASCII is ASCII without encoding checks, UTF8 is UTF-8. I think that you should use UTF8. Yours, Laurenz Albe ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match