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by rmunn 98 days ago
"Just use Postgres" (which defaults to UTF-8 encoding unless specifically configured to use something else) is looking like better and better advice every day.

Doesn't help those tied to legacy systems that would require a huge, expensive effort to upgrade, though. Sorry, folks. There's a better system, you know it's a better system, and you can't use it because switching is too expensive? I've been there (not databases, in my case) and it truly sucks.