Hello,

we have a mix of older software still using LATIN1 as db encoding and the 
psqlODBC-drivers (ANSI) and newer software using UTF8 as db encoding. As 
running two server instances would use up more resources(?) than just one we'd 
like to have all dbs in one cluster. Which cons against this solution are 
there? Which operating system locale should be used then? C locale is 
recommended in the docs - also because of better performance. However, the 
language of the software is not English but German - so shouldn't there be 
problems with sorting German Umlauts etc. correctly etc.? Which encoding should 
the server have - UTF8/Unicode or LATIN1? BTW which is the correct locale for 
LATIN1 and German (de_DE (my guess) or [EMAIL PROTECTED] (which seems to be for 
LATIN9)). Using SQL_ASCII doesn't seem to be a wise choice. Are there no 
problems when connecting with psqlODBC-ANSI drivers if the server encoding is 
UTF8/Unicode? I'd be happy if you could enlighten me a bit.

Thank you very much,

Peter
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