Frank Joerdens <frank(at)joerdens(dot)de> writes:
> Multibyte support is mainly recommended for character sets that don't
> fit into a single byte (Chinese, Japanese, Korean), and locale support
> is said to be mostly sufficient for European languages . . . what escapes
> me is why I should bother with either of these when SQL_ASCII works just
> fine with my mostly German users. I must be missing something, right?
Sort ordering of non-7-bit-ASCII characters? upper/lower case
conversions that work as expected? locale-aware formatting options
in to_char and friends?
If you don't need any of that, then you won't need locale support.
I agree that you have no use for multibyte support.
regards, tom lane