Re: what characterset to use?

From: Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bortel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 13:38:01 +0200
Message-ID: <fbe7an$4a8$1@news3.zwoll1.ov.home.nl>

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sybrandb_at_hccnet.nl wrote:

> In my situation I *don't* have clients running on the server.
> They are all running on Winblows.

Weren't discussing your situation.
>
> So: set the characterset of the database to the characterset of the
> O/S: WE8ISO8859P15 on *Nix and MSWIN1252 on Winblows.

No, no need at all - and, P15 is not Unix - P1 is.

> Set the characterset of the client (a *different* system) to the
> characterset of the client O/S, usually MSWIN1252.

Agree - goes for the environment variables (registry on Windows) on the server machine as well

> Actually this is the situation when you use the installation defaults
> on *Nix and on Winblows.

As I claimed

> Why people set their charactersets to US7ASCII beats me.
Dunno either. Remnants from times long gone?

-- Regards, Frank van Bortel

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