John Paul Ashenfelter wrote: > the way you claim though I'll concede the point for i18n -- but not > necessarily for l10n (localization).
yes, you want it for l10n as well (you seem to be missing the point of i18n, it's to make an app ready for l10n). why on earth would you want to manage an app across the dozens & dozens of encodings, many of which are for the same language? and yes, mysql was considered a joke for that kind of application (and so was php but that's another story). > Let's say you're building a data warehouse -- doubling the size of the > text columns in the fact tables (from varchar to nvarchar) to make > them unicode as opposed to using the correct character set makes a unicode is the "correct" encoding as far as many orginzations like the w3c goes. it's what the marketing yokels like to call "future proof", which doesn't made it any less true. > noticable difference in size. If I've got a German client, I'd rather > use the appropriate character set for the varchar columns instead > supporting unicode; but if I have a mix of Cyrillic, Western, and Big5 > data I'd certainly use Unicode just like I would in MS-SQL. any complex i18n app will have a mix of locales/languages. what you describe for a german app isn't and most likely won't remain "just for german" these days for long. then you're faced with moving that db into unicode like it should have been in the first place. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:208157 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
