[Solar-talk] UTF-8

[Paul M Jones]

On Jul 25, 2006, at 4:54 PM, Paul M Jones wrote:

>
> On Jul 25, 2006, at 4:33 PM, Rodrigo Moraes wrote:
>
>> On 7/25/06, Paul M Jones wrote:
>>> I do not like the sound of that.
>>
>> lol. yup, it sounds terrible. my dumb guess was that UCS-2 meant that
>> they were "more advanced" than UTF-8 (UCS-2 = UTF-16, right?), and
>> then UTF-8 would not be an issue for SQL Server. which is totally
>> wrong, it is.
>
> IIRC, UCS-2 is fixed-byte; it always uses the same number of bytes to
> represent characters (6 I think).

Er, 2 bytes (16-bits), my bad.



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