Anticlue

Encoding

Recently, the topic has come up at work regarding encoding standards. The college informatics programmer has proposed setting an encoding standard.

So of course, the next thing that occurs is research. I've found an interesting article that explains the basics of encoding. I think we are going to use Western Latin 1 for web development. What that means is easily changing the setting in DWMX to Western Latin 1 in the new document preferences, and setting the SQL Server 2000 collation setting to 1252. The problem being for our SQL Servers in order to change it, we are going to need to rebuild all of the databases and reload the data. I love Microsoft.