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Frank Meulblok
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You can also use a CLOB field, those can have a different codepage from the rest of the database. But those can't be indexed or used in a WHERE clause, so that still may not give you what you want. From personal experience though, it's rare that you'll only need one unicode-enabled column - once people get used to being able to store any text they want in a field, they start wanting that capability for all fields. So converting the database to UTF-8 is probably the better long-term plan anyway.
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