On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 08:03, Tim Bunce wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 10:42:18PM -0400, Lincoln A. Baxter wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 11:16, Tim Bunce wrote:
> > > Am I right in thinking that perl's internal utf8 representation
> > > represents surrogates as a single (4 byte) code point and
On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 08:03, Tim Bunce wrote:
> "You can use UTF8 and AL32UTF8 by setting NLS_LANG for OCI client
> applications. If you do not need supplementary characters, then it
> does not matter whether you choose UTF8 or AL32UTF8. However, if
> your OCI applications might handle supplementa
Hello Owen,
On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 16:46, Owen Taylor wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 08:03, Tim Bunce wrote:
>
> > "You can use UTF8 and AL32UTF8 by setting NLS_LANG for OCI client
> > applications. If you do not need supplementary characters, then it
> > does not matter whether you choose UTF8 o
Tim Bunce wrote:
On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 10:58:19PM +0700, Martin Hosken wrote:
IIRC AL32UTF8 was introduced at the behest of Oracle (a voting member of
Unicode) because they were storing higher plane codes using the
surrogate pair technique of UTF-16 mapped into UTF-8 (i.e. resulting in
2 UTF
