UTF8Encoding property

Specifies whether the new database should be using the UTF8 character set or the character set associated with the collation.

Syntax

Visual Basic
Public Property UTF8Encoding As Boolean

C#
public bool UTF8Encoding { get; set; }

Property value

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.

Remarks

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.

For databases used on Symbian OS devices, you must set UTF8Encoding true.

For databases used on Palm OS devices, you must leave UTF8Encoding false.