Re: utf-8 and databases

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> The primary concern is whether a database is able to represent the entire

this was a question that came up about older middleware (cf5) that couldn't
properly handle unicode, some folks (me included) were stuffing utf-8 into
databases that didn't understand it (ie a char became a series of bytes).
the question became, "are there any dbs that do"? and finally "how do you
tell"?

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