On Friday 25 January 2002 10:35, Hery Yulianto wrote: > Hi Brothers or Sisters, > I need to know, how to configure MySQL can be support unicode like Chinese > (simplified and Traditional), Croation,Chezh or whatever. > > I using PHP programming and needed can transaction with Chinese character. > > > Thank you for explain to me > > Best Regard, > Hery
Well, I'm not a mysql maintainer, bus AFAIK mysql has no unicode support. But if you agree to the idea to store unicode characters in latin-1 encoding, you can also store them into mysql. The point is, that due to the "wrong" encoding, you cannot "really" sort the data by using ORDER BY in your select query. The chars in the appropriate language might be sorted differently like they are in unicode. I'm not sure if you need to escape the chars first, before putting them into the tables. I didn't encounter any problems yet, but maybe someone else can answer this point. But if that doesn't matter, you can use a charset converter to convert from the original charset (big5, gb, latin-1, etc.) into utf-8 and then store the output into mysql tables. I for my case use a debian linux system and have the 'recode' program to convert between the charsets. Version 3.6 works pretty well for that. If you need some hints how to write a php site to handle this kind of stuff correctly, you can contact me. Cheers Arne --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
