On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 11:24:51PM +0100, Martin J. Evans wrote:
On 04/10/2011 22:38, Tim Bunce wrote:
I've not had time to devote to this thread. Sorry.
I'd be grateful if someone could post a summary of it if/when it
approaches some kind of consensus.
I don't think there is a kind of consensus right now (although
some useful discussion which probably will bear fruit) and I'd
prefer to work out what unicode support already exists and how it is
implemented first. [...]
I've started gathering together details of what unicode support
there is in DBDs, how it is implemented and what special flags there
are to support it. However, this is a massive task. So far I've done
ODBC, Oracle, CSV, Unify, mysql, SQLite, Firebird
That seems like enough to make a start on design issues.
There's certainly a wide range of databases in that list :)
examples I have which verify unicode support
Are the examples in a repo somewhere?
I thought the whole issue was an interesting topic and I had toyed
with doing a talk for LPW but to be honest, it is already taking a
lot of time and I have personal issues right now (and of course my
$work) which mean my time is severely limited so I'm doubtful right
now if I could have it ready in time as a talk. I might just post
what I have gathered in a weeks time in the hope I get a little more
input in the mean time.
Good idea. I'd like to see the examples sometime to see what scope they
have and if/how the might be improved.
Perhaps we could carve out some time at LPW to sit together and try to
progress this.
Tim.
