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SQL is the preferred database type. | SQL is the preferred database type. | ||
MSSQL has unicode datatypes (he "n" variants) : nvarchar, nchar, nvarchar(max), ntext | MSSQL has unicode datatypes (he "n" variants) : nvarchar, nchar, nvarchar(max), ntext. those are all UTF-16. | ||
MSSQL 2019 will support UTF-8 | MSSQL 2019 will support UTF-8, this is not recommended (or supported) at this moment. | ||
MySQL supports both UTF-16 as well as UTF-8 | |||
DB2 supports UTF-8 and UTF-16 | |||
The embedded database only supports OEM and has no unicode support. | |||
The Connectivity kit handles all of the character translations between database backend and UTF-8 strings. | |||
== Migrating to Unicode == | == Migrating to Unicode == |