Thanks for your help Gabriel. I will use the latin1 with case sensitive.
Andre On 1/31/05 7:32 AM, "Gabriel PREDA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think you should use: latin1_general_ci and on columns with spanish you > should use latin1_spanish_ci. > > English, French, Portuguese not having a separate collation I believe that > they are included into latin1_general_ci ? > > Please observe the last part from a collation name: case sensitive (_cs) ... > case insensitive (_ci) ... and binary (_bin) ! > > UTF8 consumes more space on disk ! > If you issue a SHOW CHARACTER SET command > > mysql> SHOW CHARACTER SET; > > You will notice the last column named Maxlen that defines how many bytes > takes to store a letter. > > On utf8_general_ci you will notice 3... as on latin1_XXXX_xx you will only > see 1... > Although these values represent a MAX value... what you need will use at > most 2 bytes per letter in UTF-8... but in latin1_xxx_xx will, for sure, > will use one byte... on long texts this will count ! > > In my opinion you should stick to latin1_xxx_xx ! > > Afther some thought and aditional computation I declared myself satisfied > with: > latin2 - ISO 8859-2 Central European - latin2_general_ci - 1byte > > but I'm having Romanian + English + French columns. > > Try to read http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/charset.html with no > distraction arround you ! > > Gabriel > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Andre Matos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <mysql@lists.mysql.com> > Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 9:29 PM > Subject: utf8 x latin > > >> Hi list, >> I was wondering which one is better to use, "utf8_general_ci" or >> "latin1_general_cs", with English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish? >> Thanks. >> Andre >> -- >> Andre Matos >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> -- >> MySQL General Mailing List >> For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql >> To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Andre Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
