RE: [Mantisbt-dev] Internet Explorer bug with special characters

[Paul R. <pa...@qu...>]

Quick MS site search comes up with
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q232/5/80.ASP

Unfortunately, I can't offer much input as I normally only have to deal with
English applications, but from reading that knowledge base article, it
appears that MS might use not use UTF-8 but a UCS-2  ? - anyway, this isn't
my area of expertise :)
 
> 
> Jeroen--
> 
> > I think:
> 
> > - Figure out a way to convert existing databases to the new 
> > content-type (maybe just let the user select the current 
> content type, 
> > perhaps with a default based on the current default language file?)
> 
> I can only speak to MySQL on this matter. But I know that 
> MySQL has no problems handling different content types. 
> However, to get this support on per install basis, then MySQL 
> 4.0 would need to become the minimum standard. Although I 
> would encourage this, I don't think it's going to happen yet.
> 
> As far as PostgreSQL and MS SQL are concerned, I have no 
> idea. Maybe some PostgreSQL users would care to chime in. 
> Paul, can you offer any insight to MS SQL?

Paul