Internationalization - a character set to support all languages?
As far as MySql is concerned, is there a character set to support all or the vast majority of languages?
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user48545
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Unicode. It has several encodings: UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8
UTF-8 (8-bit UCS / Unicode Conversion Format) is a variable length character encoding for Unicode. It is capable of representing any character in the Unicode standard, but is backward compatible with ASCII.
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S.Lott
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As others have said, UTF-8. Go read Joel's blog post about Unicode and you will see why.
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Esko
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UTF-8 should be your first choice.
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arno
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