How do you handle YOUR encodings?

[Carsten Friehe]

Hi Erne!

> of course I do searches! (what's a database is for otherwise :?)

:-)
 
> I use UTF8 so I don't have the hassle of null bytes
> and pass the UTF8 string to the query as usual

That's what I am doing also.

> of course Vale will deal with it as a bunch of bytes
> but, since that's what it's stored into it,
> she seems to have no problems with that

That is what I also find out. :-)

> Also sort is acceptably correct
> (at least with latin languages, 

I didn't looked at this. All fields I did ordering with don't have other
characters as ASCII.

> don't have a clue of what's the expected
> sort of a chinese or arabic language)

I don't know this too.

Thanks for your answers!
Carsten