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.
