alt Hacker News> The vast majority of character fields in databases I've worked with do not need to store unicode values.
This has not been my experience at all. Exactly the opposite, in fact. ASCII is dead.
> The vast majority of character fields in databases I've worked with do not need to store unicode values.
This has not been my experience at all. Exactly the opposite, in fact. ASCII is dead.
Vast majority of text fields I see are coded values that are perfectly fine using ascii, but I deal mostly with English language systems.
Text fields that users can type into directly especially multiline tend to need unicode but they are far fewer.