On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:

> I'm tired of telling that Unicode is not that perfect. Another gottcha
> with Unicode is the UTF-8 encoding (currently we use) consumes 3
> bytes for each Kanji character, while other encodings consume only 2
> bytes. IMO 3/2 storage ratio could not be neglected for database use.

I'm aware of how utf-8 works and I was talking about the message 
cataloges. It does not affect what you store in the database in any way.

-- 
/Dennis


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