Submitted by: Bill Oliver (verbguy)

When you create a new database, the default character set is NONE. I proposed to the developer's list that we make this ISO8859_1. Some good discussion was held on the list, but no resolution.

Some ideas were -

1) use ISO8859_1, since we use that internally for many operations.
2) use UTF8, since that will be suitable for more users.
3) let the default character set be configurable by the config file.

Ivan said that use of Delphi with UTF-8 was problematic, so maybe that's not a good choice?

I'll leave this up to the project admin to decide on resolution. In our private tree, we set default to ISO8859_1, but this might not be best for everyone, I realize.