Public Property UTF8Encoding As Boolean

public bool UTF8Encoding {get;set;}

True if the database should use the UTF8 character set, false if the database should use the character set associated with the collation. The default is false.

Choose to use the UTF8 character set if you want to store characters that are not in the character set associated with the collation. For example, you create a database with the 1252LATIN1 collation because you want US sorting but specify UTF8Encoding true because you want to store international addresses as they are spelled locally.