On Aug 31, 2013, at 4:55 AM, Mark Rotteveel <m...@lawinegevaar.nl> wrote:
> On 29-8-2013 17:41, Jim Starkey wrote: >> Paradoxically, Japanese strings tend to be shorter in UTF-8 than 16 bit >> Unicode. The reason is simple: There are enough single byte characters >> -- punctuation, control characters, and digits -- stay as single bytes, >> double byte characters are a wash, and the single byte characters >> generally balance the number of three byte characters. >> >> UTF-16 is a mess with nasty problems of endians, multi-word characters, >> and illegal codepoints to worry about. >> > > Unfortunately the implementation of UTF-8 in Firebird is annoying > because it reduces that maximum allowed number of characters to a 1/4 of > that for single byte character sets making it necessary to switch to > blobs sooner. A better solution is to change the implementation of CHAR and VARCHAR to accept longer strings. Cheers, Ann > l ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! Discover the easy way to master current and previous Microsoft technologies and advance your career. Get an incredible 1,500+ hours of step-by-step tutorial videos with LearnDevNow. Subscribe today and save! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58040911&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
