Re: Multibyte encoding - what should a package provide?

1999-09-03 Thread Ryuichi Arafune
PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Multibyte encoding - what should a package provide? Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 10:54:28 +0200 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> bortzmeyer> Well, actually, we have three groups: bortzmeyer> bortzmeyer> - English-speaking people, who are fine with US-ASCII, bortzme

Re: Multibyte encoding - what should a package provide?

1999-09-03 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
> > Well, actually, we have three groups: > > > > - English-speaking people, who are fine with US-ASCII, > > - European-languages-speaking people, who are quite happy with 8bits > > ISO-8859-* and locales, > > - Asian-languages-speaking people, who need Unicode (and therefore > > multibyte). >

Re: Multibyte encoding - what should a package provide?

1999-09-03 Thread UNO Takeshi
Hi, From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Multibyte encoding - what should a package provide? Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 10:54:28 +0200 > I remind you that the multibyte option has frequently a huge cost in size and > speed. In that case, two packages from the same

Re: Multibyte encoding - what should a package provide?

1999-09-03 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Thursday 2 September 1999, at 16 h 50, the keyboard of "Oliver Elphick" wrote: > I have had a request for a postgresql package with multibyte support. I assume you noticed the thread on debian-devel under the titles "Debian-JP discussions; lets wrap this up" and "this all this xxx-jp nonsen

Multibyte encoding - what should a package provide?

1999-09-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
[Reference: bug#43702] I have had a request for a postgresql package with multibyte support. Such support would enable postgresql to store data in different character sets, so that data in Russian, Greek, Chinese or other scripts could be stored and sorted properly. There are several issues that