On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 7:50 AM, Monty Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey all, > > Brian and I were talking earlier about charsets, and were thinking about > making everything pure uft-8 everywhere. Does anybody have any > objections, or reasons this would be bad? Does this leave anyone out in > the cold? > > Thanks, > Monty >
I suggest waiting until we have a large audience. MySQL history with character sets has been long and troubled, and every addition in that department was done to please a growing user base. In our current situation, with most of the contributors being in North America, the problems won't surface easily. As soon as Drizzle starts being used by thousands and then by millions, we may be in trouble if we cut too much. IMO, we can cut the character sets when we have a comprehensive test suite and a reasonable user base that feels satisfied. You can set UTF8 as default, but leave open the chance for people to use other character sets. Giuseppe -- The Data Charmer http://datacharmer.org/ _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
