.NET:
configuration.Unicode(false)
Turning Unicode support off reduces the file storage space for strings by factor 2 and improves performance.
Enables/disables Unicode string storage format. Unicode allows you to store string data in any language to db4o.
This method needs to be called before a database file is created. db4o database files keep their string format after creation.
The default setting is true
You can create your own string
marshallers, using TypeHandler4 interface.