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Re: Multiple character encodings within a single database/table?

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Steve Atkins wrote:
> 
> On Mar 23, 2009, at 3:50 PM, Dann Corbit wrote:
> 
> > If I have the C locale, can I have multiple character encodings  
> > within:
> > 1.  A single database?
> > 2.  A single table?
> 
> No.
> 
> >
> > More specifically, I would like to be able to have Unicode columns and
> > ASCII text columns within the same table.  Is this possible?  If so,  
> > how
> > do I achieve it?
> 
> Any valid ascii string is also a valid utf8 string. You can probably  
> just use utf8 for everything.

More specifically, ASCII bytes are valid UTF8 values.

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