Re: Unicode questions

No, not necessarily. You can support Russian, etc., without Unicode.
What you *can't* do without Unicode is display/store certain character
sets concurrently. If your customers *only* need Russian (or Russian
and English, for example) then you can use the KOI-8 charset --

I would not use KOI-8, if I were you ;o) it is very old code page and not
commonly used in Windows world
Win-1251 (ANSI) works just fine and is native for the Windows

Lets say for instance we need our app to display Russian as well as
pull and show Russian data from a db. From a programming perspective,
what needs to change in the program to support this?

Here you might have problem when mixing SQLServer installed on English core
Server and workstation with Russian enabled
to over come this you would need to set Auto Translate option for ADO
connection to Auto Translate=False;


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