I think that this is also true for DB2 using UTF-8 as the database encoding.
>From an application perspective, MS SQL Server is the one that gives us the most
trouble, because it doesn't support UTF-8 as a database encoding for char, etc.
Joe
Kenneth Whistler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 06/22/2000 06:42:20 PM
To: "Unicode List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bcc: Joe Ross/Tivoli
Systems)
Subject: Re: Java, SQL, Unicode and Databases
Jianping responded:
>
> Tex,
>
> Oracle doesn't have special requirement for datatype in JDBC driver if you use
UTF8 as database
> character set. In this case, all the text datatype in JDBC will support
Unicode data.
>
The same thing is, of course, true for Sybase databases using UTF-8
at the database character set, accessing them through a JDBC driver.
But I think Tex's question is aimed at the much murkier area
of what the various database vendors' strategies are for dealing
with UTF-16 Unicode as a datatype. In that area, the answers for
what a cross-platform application vendor needs to do and for how
JDBC drivers might abstract differences in database implementations
are still unclear.
--Ken
