Character encodings in MySQL
Just as I was modifying our database, I thought again of support for localizing our app. I was given advise by someone here in the devpinoy.org community, to support localization in your app your app must be planned with it from the ground up. Since we don't have that much data yet, it won't hurt to change things in the database. I'm gonna be changing the fields that needs localization support to UTF-16 as suggested in this article in the mysql website.
http://mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/mysql-config-wizard-character-set.html