Hi Drew,
UTF-8 is a unicode characterset, just as UTF-16, see
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html. The whole collation
thing is explained here;
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/charset-general.html. You'll have
to decide for yourself which of the unicode charsets, and which of the
collations are best to use. It may depend on your input, sometimes its
easier to take utf-8, as alot of web input/output is like that, but it
varies...
Maarten
Drew Kutcharian wrote:
Hi everyone,
I am trying to develop an multi-language application that will use
i18n. What is the best character set and collation to use with Java 5,
JDBC and MySQL 5? There are way too many variations, UTF-8, UTF-16,
UCS-2 for character codes, and a lot more collation types! I checked
the Java specs and it says Java supports Unicode 4.0 but how does this
map to MySQL??
Thanks,
Drew
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