Multilingual DB configuration

If you pretend to manage multilingual data like special chars and formats, obviously your DBMS and DB must be configured to handle them. Your DB could have been created with a simple locale configuration and could not permit special chars like diacritics, UTF-8 represetations and so. In many DBMSes the locale options for DBs are defined at the creation of DB. Consult your DBA if you find problems at this point.

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