Unicode, UTF-8, and Greek
Curt Hagenlocher
curt at hagenlocher.org
Wed Oct 10 15:43:56 EDT 2001
I want to apologize for my last email; it was pissy and off-topic.
I haven't really been following this thread that closely, and am
not a user of the FreeTDS C library in any event.
Steve Langasek <vorlon at netexpress.net> writes:
> FreeTDS is being written today, not
> five years ago when UCS-2 was being put into NT4. A Unix widechar
> implementation done today should be using UCS-4. Much better still is
> the multibyte standard, UTF-8, which almost everyone in the Unix world
> uses as the Unicode encoding of choice.
As someone else pointed out, you'd still be limited by the server
implementation even if the client implements the newer, wider spec.
UTF-8 can, of course, be stored in regular char/varchar fields as
long as all the clients of the database app agree to use that
representation.
Would you return an error if someone passed a valid UCS-4 or UTF-8
string that was not also a valid UCS-2 string?
What does Sybase support for Unicode?
--
Curt Hagenlocher
curt at hagenlocher.org
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