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Fri May 2 19:13:14 EDT 2003
UTF-8, a multibyte counted-string system (no null terminators). All three manuals
state Unicode can represent Chinese. (There's only one written Chinese language. Is
there more than one "character set"?)
Sybase: "In UCS-2 all characters; ASCII, Latin-based characters, and Asian
ideographs; are encoded as 2-byte, 16-bit characters."
Gnu: "Unicode was originally planned as a 16-bit character set, whereas ISO 10646
was designed to be a 31-bit large code space. The two standards are practically
identical. They have the same character repertoire and code table, but Unicode
specifies added semantics."
http://www.gnu.org/manual/glibc-2.2.3/html_node/libc_85.html
There doesn't seem to be any support out there for UCS-4, unless you count Gnu's
32-bit wchar_t type (which they say isn't strictly compliant). So, supporting
Unicode would put FreeTDS on par with its databases.
Interesting. Sybase has Unicode support too, but we never hear about it.
Regards,
--jkl
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