(A proprietary ISAM-based beastie. The system in question dates from rather a while before Unicode even existed, so it's just about excusable. Its as-yet-unreleased replacement mercifully does do the Right Things and manages to use a Real Database to boot.)
Unless you accidentally get yourself employed by my orkplace, you probably can, yes.
Then again, this (http://thedailywtf.com/forums/thread/97990.aspx) story is about one of the two largest companies in our market (we were recently bought by the other one), so as horrifying as the thought is, it's pretty safe to say that It Could Be Worse. Much worse.
(A proprietary ISAM-based beastie. The system in question dates from rather a while before Unicode even existed, so it's just about excusable. Its as-yet-unreleased replacement mercifully does do the Right Things and manages to use a Real Database to boot.)
Then again, this (http://thedailywtf.com/forums/thread/97990.aspx) story is about one of the two largest companies in our market (we were recently bought by the other one), so as horrifying as the thought is, it's pretty safe to say that It Could Be Worse. Much worse.