On 3-12-2012 17:17, Fabiano wrote: > I would like to put a note here for other people who are planning to use > UTF-8 charsets and ci/ai collations. > > The tests i realized before (in a previous message) didn't show the real > numbers. <snip differences which indeed seem large> > So, unless there are some plans to improve UTF8 searchs a lot in next > firebird versions, for now i think it's a risk to use this charset if > your project will need to use SQL instructions like above.
Of course, /not/ using UTF8 if you need to support multiple alphabets/character sets now or in future is also a risk to your project. As always you have to weigh advantages & disadvantages.... Regards, Reinier
