Joel Rees wrote: >Shift-JIS is a real pain in the neck to parse. When you look at a byte, >it's often impossible to tell whether you're looking at the first byte >or the second byte of the character. > Can I make a minor recommendation that doesn't help your current situation at all?
Use UTF-8. You can _know_ which bytes are the first or middle bytes of a byte stream and in Japanese, its always three bytes per character (even though as an encoding, its variable length). Its also sortable; but I haven't tried UTF-8 encoding in MySQL (nor do I know if it is actually supported). -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
