On Jan 31, 2004, at 7:32 AM, John Sidney-Woollett wrote:
>
> 4) I'm not initially expecting arabic, chinese, cyrillic or other
> language
> types to be stored in the database. But if they were, would UNICODE be
> the
> best encoding scheme to use for future proofing the data?
>
If there is a remote chance that you might ever need CJK support you
should start now with unicode encoding. Switching the encoding of your
database is a major, major pain. I have a SQL_ASCII database that I
wish were UNICODE but the conversion is such an ugly undertaking that I
haven't even tried.
culley