>>>>> "Rich" == Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com> writes:
Rich> I doubt that my use will notice meaningful differences. Since
Rich> there are only two or three databases in UTF8 and its collation
Rich> perhaps I'll convert those to LATIN1 and C.
Note that it's perfectly fine to use UTF8 encoding and C collation (this
has the effect of sorting strings in Unicode codepoint order); this is
as fast for comparisons as LATIN1/C is.
For those cases where you need data to be sorted in a
culturally-meaningful order rather than in codepoint order, you can set
collations on specific columns or in individual queries.
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Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad)