Usable charset for Moldava

Question

Hi!

Does anybody knows which charset is used in Moldava. We've to prepare our software (and database) for Moldava. ;-) I guess UTF-8 should work, shouldn't it?

Thank you in advance.
Best regards
Thomas

Answer 1

Moldova has some controversy on what script to use (Transnistria uses Moldovan Cyrillic and mainland uses latin with lots of diacritics).

UTF-8 is always a good choice, anyway.

Answer 2

UTF-8 works for everything :-)

The question is whether your software will need to interface with "native" applications. If so, it may need to understand the encodings used by that software. Those are most likely ISO-8859-5 for cyrillic script and ISO-8859-16 for latin script.