John,
> I guess if I have some time I should build some different DBs with
> different combinations of encoding and collations and summarise my
> findings using different types of data and sort/search commands, in case
> anyone else has the same level of confusion that I do...
that'd be excellent. Be sure to offer the writeup for
inclusion into the techdocs site.
Karsten
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