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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon May 22 03:13:14 -0700
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Hi Frank,
> On the first system I tried (our Linux build machines),
These build machines are deliberately old-to-obsolete to take advantage of
better backwards compat. Try any RedHat machine in recent memory, and anything
from SuSE 9.3(2?) - they all default to UTF-8.
> Cutting 8-byte-characters respecting UTF-8 boundaries would probably
> be possible. The problem then is that terms like "field length" then
> lose their meaning
Sure - or at least, their easy-to-understand user-meaning, but:
* there is a bug here anyway - using UTF-8 in an un-controlled way
* tons of languages can't store biblography entries currently
* we want databases that can store the full Unicode range, not some
random sub-set
* short / fixed-length fields are pretty evil anyway
* there is at least some underlying & easy to communicate reason
> This will most probably lead to bug reports of the kind "I entered 20
> characters and the last 5 silently disappeared". How to solve this?
Sure - that will happen - but of course, only for dbase databases, with
short fixed length record sizes: a fairly small target combination anyway IMHO.
So - how about it ? :-) I'll knock up a patch & then perhaps we can convert
the default bibliography data (?). Thanks muchly for the prompt feedback though
- that's cool.
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