Re: Multibyte encoding vs. SQL_ASCII vs. locales and European languages

On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 01:41:16PM +0100, Frank Schafer wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 13:03, Frank Joerdens wrote:
> > Call me stupid - but I am trying to understand what multibyte encoding
> > (aka Latin1) ...
>
> !!!!!!???????????!!!...!!!!!!...???????????
>
> so Latin1 i MULTYBYTE ?????????!!!!!!!..!!!...?????????????
>
> Regards
> Frank ( too ;o)
              ^^
              and what is that emoticon?

??? What did you mean??? (did your mailer screw things up so I am only
seeing exclamation and question marks or did you try to tell me
something that way?).

By way of explaining myself a little better maybe: Looking at the
relevant section in the admin guide, which is entitled 'Localization',
you get the impression that either locale support or multibyte support
are good things to have if you are not in an English environment.
Multibyte support is mainly recommended for character sets that don't
fit into a single byte (Chinese, Japanese, Korean), and locale support
is said to be mostly sufficient for European languages . . . what escapes
me is why I should bother with either of these when SQL_ASCII works just
fine with my mostly German users. I must be missing something, right?

Regards, Frank