On Sunday 2. March 2008, Swaminathan Saikumar wrote: >I am using UTF8 Unicode for most of my data, but there is some data > that I know for sure will be ASCII. However, this is also stored as > UTF8, using up more space. ASCII stored as UTF8 doesn't take up more space than plain ASCII, it's exactly the same thing. It's one byte per character unless the character number is above 127. -- Leif Biberg Kristensen | Registered Linux User #338009 http://solumslekt.org/ | Cruising with Gentoo/KDE My Jazz Jukebox: http://www.last.fm/user/leifbk/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster