UNICODE

Hi,

To enable localization of our new platform, we thought that saving all
character strings as UNICODE would be a good idea. Even if the front-end
(PHP) doesn't fully support UNICODE yet, we figured it's still good to have
the database in that format, for the future. We have not installed
mb_string.

We have created a UNICODE database and started experimenting with it
(PostgreSQL)
./configure --enable-multibyte
createdb -E UNICODE me-e

My question is: do you need to convert strings to UTF-8 before adding them
to the database, or is that done "automatically"?


Best regards,
Per Aronsson