On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 23:39, Joel Rees wrote: > Sort of off topic, but here goes: > > Jim Philips wrote: > > > I am trying to understand how to store both Latin and Cyrillc characters > > in a database. I built in support for koi-8 and win1251, but I don't > > seem to be getting real support for Cyrillic. Cyrillic characters are > > stored as ASCII > > Uhmmm, unless there is some parsing and conversion going on along with the > storing, "storing as ASCII" really doesn't mean anything. A 0x5c (decimal > 92) is neither back slash nor the yen (JPY) mark. If you are reading text > from an American source (but not EBCDIC), you think it is backslash, but if > you are reading text from a Japanese (shift-JIS) source you think it is JPY. > What you think of it when reading Cyrillic, I don't recall off-hand. > > > and are echoed back on the Web page that way. > > At any rate, this is what the browser is doing, not what MySQL is doing. You > have to explicitly tell the browser to interpret those bits as one thing or > another. Most browsers won't let you display more than one character > set/encoding at a time.
My browser, Mozilla, regularly does this. It does it on the following page, for example: http://www.bbc.co.uk/ukrainian/index.shtml The page is mostly Ukrainian, but there are sections using Latin fonts and they show up just fine too. Using the same browser, I am trying to load Web pages where the data is stored in my local MySQL database. In this case, Cyrillic characters are not interpreted and instead I get something like: * Би-би-си | Новости So, I am trying to understand where the interpretation to Cyrillic characters fails. It certainly isn't in my browser. Either the application is using a print method that has problems with other character sets or there is something wrong with the way I have set up MySQL. As I said before, I did build it with support for koi-8 and win1251. So, I am wondering if I missed something else I need to do to enable support. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
