Hello.
>But I've been told that the support for Unicode is not yet good in MySQL. Is
>it possible to find whether this is true?
I don't think so, as most bugs related to utf8 are reported about the fifth
version
while utf8 support in fourth seems very stable.
Raul Mauri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>
> I use the MyQSL Query Browser for a library database.
> I have come across a problem in MySQL: Using extended characters, as , is
> not a problem, as long as they are present in the standard 256 characters of
> a font. Things become more difficult when I need other East Europe
> characters.
> Could anyone suggest any information about this matter? How to use all the
> characters present in the Times New Roman font (which includes Hebrew, greek,
> Arab, and all East Europe characters) ? Is it possible to include them in a
> MySQL database ?
> In addition to this, I have another problem:
> I use the latin-1 code page for most of the text. I need to use some
> additional characters. (I use Internet Explorer as interface). To display the
> characters is not difficult: #1488; will display the hebew "Aleph". No
> problem. The trouble is for writing a request and ordering the result list,
> ("collation").
>
> e.g.:
> Standard collations of MySQL sends the special characters in the end of the
> list. Suppose a request which sends 6 charterhouses, it will be ordered like
> this :
>
> Portes
> Séville
> Transfiguration
> Valsainte
> Witham
> tipa
>
> and I would like :
>
> Portes
> Séville
> tipa
> Transfiguration
> Valsainte
> Witham
>
> The documentation at www.mysql.com indicates how things can be modified. But
> I've been told that the support for Unicode is not yet good in MySQL. Is it
> possible to find whether this is true?
> I would also need that the user can type : Stipa without the accent, and find
> the result.
> As I said, we have found the trick for the standard 256 ANSI characters. The
> question is more difficult if Unicode is needed. The chapter 11 explains this
> matter, but I am not sure that all this works well presently. I would just
> like to know if MySQL is really ready for unicode use.
> Well, I thank you in advance.
>
>
> Raúl Mauri
>
>
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