Re: ucs-2 server - yes. usc-2 client - no. What the ....?

[Mike Lischke]

Cristi Ionescu wrote:

> utf8 or utf16/ucs2 ?

Depends. If you have a system that primarily works with UTF-8 then go with UTF-8 (e.g. Linux mostly works with UTF-8). Windows however internally uses UTF-16, so in order to avoid frequent conversions use UCS-2.

Mike

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