Internationalisation - character set to support all languages?

character-encoding, internationalization, mysql, sql

Solution

Unicode. It has several encodings: UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8

UTF-8 (8-bit UCS/Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode. It is able to represent any character in the Unicode standard, yet is backwards compatible with ASCII.

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