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Hey Ron,
Here's that whitepaper I had mentioned on the list...
Why We Are Moving Our Databases to the UTF8 Character Set by David F. Pennington, GlaxoSmithKline
HTH Chris
PS. For everyone else, you can find the whitepaper using Google, or email me direct.
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Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 10:57 AM
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I have always used US7ASCII character set. I am creating a new server and database for an existing production application and I was wondering if I should be using one of the newer character sets. Is there a newer character set that would still work with the old application data?
Ron Smith
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Why We Are Moving Our Databases to the UTF8 Character Set.doc Description: MS-Word document
Received on Thu Jan 17 2002 - 08:53:43 CST