> the 'MAXDB_UNICODE' is a no-op currently, and - there is no support for > Unicode and there > will probably never be for PHP 4. Enjoy the article at > http://www.zend.com/zend/week/php-unicode-design.txt for the gory details on > when and > how PHP will support Unicode someday.
Well, as i said: i already know, that PHP does not support unicode. BTW: the MaxDB-PHP-Extenstion didn't compile with PHP 5.1.2. (I don't assume, that PHP5 includes unicode-support, does it?) > I cite the first sentence for a short answer here: > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > As successful as PHP has proven to be in the past several years, it is still > the only remaining member of the P-trinity of scripting languages - Perl and > Python being the other two - that remains blithely ignorant of the > multilingual and multinational environment around it. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Well - PHP ignores the existence of unicode - well, but as i also said: i don't care! (which mean means:) I would like to access the unicode-data, no matter how. If the MaxDB-Extension returns an UTF8/UCS2-String, that would at least be a way to access the data - no matter how much manual work has to be done, to work with utf8/ucs2-data in PHP. The current status-quo is: - It is absolutely impossible to access unicode-data that stored in a MaxDB-database. There is no way, not even a proprietary undocumented way or anything like that. - There is not even a way, that allows to access the ISO-8859-1 data (replacing all the unicode-characters with ?) - There also no way, accessing the data in the characterset specified by the currect locale That PHP does not support unicode, that is an excuse that there is no "unproprietary" standard-oriented way of accessing unicode-data. Sorry, if i'm that rough in mentioning what you could have done, and what you didn't - but well, the current situation is _very_ disappointing. Perhaps it's possible to write a unicode-patch for the MaxDB-Extension that returns utf8-strings. I will look into the sources. Anybody interested in working on that with me? Greetings Sven
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