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question about codepage

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Alexandre Cunha

Wednesday 12 April 2006 6:48:55 pm

hi

What codepages I need choose for the database ?
Can someone enlightme about codepages ?

thanks

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Ɓukasz Serwatka

Tuesday 18 April 2006 12:11:33 am

That depends which language for your site and db engine you will use. Since MySQL 4.1 and higher Unicode support was added, PostgreSQL supports it as well so I would recommend use it for all projects.

For MySQL run:

CREATE DATABASE `mydb` DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;

See "Unicode with eZ publish"
http://ez.no/products/ez_publish/documentation/configuration/configuration/language_and_charset/unicode_with_ez_publish

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