> We are currently seeing a whole lot of complaints due to the fact that
> 8.0 tends to default to Unicode encoding in environments where previous
> versions defaulted to SQL-ASCII. That says to me that a whole lot of
> people were getting along just fine in SQL-ASCII, and therefore that
> moving further away from that behavior is the wrong thing. In
> particular, there is not any single one of those complainants who would
> be happier with a 7-bit-only default; if they were using 7-bit-only
> data, they'd not have noticed a problem anyway.
I'm thinking of implementing a 7-bit-only encoding - any chance of
getting a quick checklist of what has to be done?
Thanks,
Chris