Re: Space requirements (with respect to foriegn languages)

Markus Bertheau wrote:
> В Чтв, 26.08.2004, в 22:36, Gerard Samuel пишет:
>>Im currently using PostgreSQL 7.4.2, using SQL_ASCII as the database
>>characterset, FreeBSD 4.10, php 4.3.6.
>
>
> Change your site to use a character set that includes chinese
> characters, for example Unicode. The most common encoding of Unicode on
> the web is UTF-8. It's also the encoding PostgreSQL uses when you use
> UNICODE as the database encoding.
>
> If you decide to switch your site to UTF-8 and want varchar(25) to mean
> 25 characters, and not 25 bytes, you have to change the database
> encoding to UNICODE accordingly.
>

I'll try some mock scripts to see if it will pan out...
Thanks