Re: Why UTF8 need 24bit in MySQL?

2010-06-08 Thread Ryan Chan
Hi, On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 12:44 AM, Warren Young war...@etr-usa.com wrote:  The Unicode consortium has stated that Unicode will never require more than 21 bits per character[*], and 24 bits is the next even multiple of 8 up from that. Maybe off topic, but just curious...If 3 bytes is enough

Why UTF8 need 24bit in MySQL?

2010-06-07 Thread Ryan Chan
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/charset-unicode.html Since MySQL only support BMP, so in fact 16 bit is needed actually? -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org

Re: Why UTF8 need 24bit in MySQL?

2010-06-07 Thread Warren Young
On 6/7/2010 9:57 AM, Ryan Chan wrote: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/charset-unicode.html Since MySQL only support BMP, so in fact 16 bit is needed actually? I imagine they were thinking they'd extend the support to full Unicode in the future and didn't want you to have to dump and

Re: Why UTF8 need 24bit in MySQL?

2010-06-07 Thread Paul DuBois
On Jun 7, 2010, at 11:44 AM, Warren Young wrote: On 6/7/2010 9:57 AM, Ryan Chan wrote: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/charset-unicode.html Since MySQL only support BMP, so in fact 16 bit is needed actually? I imagine they were thinking they'd extend the support to full Unicode in