The news I received was from some geeks at an e-learning VFP shop that has to deal with these things. They have have Japanese - Korean - and Chinese customers. I was at meeting with them last week and they showed me their first set of rack mount servers (they have a room full of PC servers that they built themselves).

They had to buy three (one for each language) because each language required it's own boot. There were issues with indexing and sorting etc.

Unicode supports all languages - But in as far as SQL and web-servers go - the server had to boot to the language. I don't pretend to know why - but these guys are frugal - they would not have gone to the expense if it was not required. The servers, BTW - were cool.

>Hi,
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>One issue you might need to consider is that a server can only deal with one unicode feature. FOr example - if you were providing web services in Chinese, Korean, Japanes and English - you would need a seperate server for each unicode-based language
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>Huh? The whole point of Unicode is that it supports all languages simultaneously - you can mix English, Japanese and Arabic on the same page. Problems only occur if the client doesn't have the required character set installed.
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>Regards,
>Viv