Brian Aker wrote: > Hi! > > On Sep 11, 2008, at 10:00 AM, Jay Pipes wrote: > >> Character set introducers are used when telling MySQL to consider a >> string literal using a specific character set. They are used as follows: >> >> SELECT _latin1'Kaj Arnö'; >> >> where _latin1 is the charset introducer. >> >> Question 1: >> >> Can introducers go away now that all charsets are 4-byte UTF8? > > Yes, and they need to. We only do UTF-8. All comparisons/strings are > done in it. Collations for indexes are the only things you have a choice > on.
OK, cool. I'll simply mark areas in the test cases which should be fixed up, then while I wait for the final cleanup of non-utf8. > This is not 100% true in the code right now, but it gets there with > every push. There are hardcoded latin comparisons that I am having to > remove. > >> Question 2: >> >> Related to Brian's question about CONVERT and CAST, can we get rid of >> charset conversions entirely? For instance, here is a statement from > > Bigger question in my mind, can we get rid of the two functions > completely? Both are implemented in the parser and not as actual > functions. To modularize the parser these types of functions have to go > away (there are very few of them left). What are the functions left that are like that? Please advise. >> Who in our community is an expert on multi-byte character sets, >> specifically UTF8, and will be able to write unit tests which verify >> input and output of Drizzle's UTF8 collations? > > > My hope was to get Toru to write us some tests in Japanese :) > > We need tests though that are specific to all of the collations we have > right now. Without a test, I do not trust the collation. Heh, me neither. > _______________________________________________________ > Brian "Krow" Aker, brian at tangent.org > Seattle, Washington > http://krow.net/ <-- Me > http://tangent.org/ <-- Software > _______________________________________________________ > You can't grep a dead tree. > > > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
