On Thu, 27 Feb 2014 10:31:21 +0000, Lester Caine <[email protected]>
wrote:
> There is currently a discussion on the PHP developer list re - Unicode.
> PHP has 
> used ICU via extensions for some time, but always used the distributed
> versions. 
> The current thoughts relate to making the core of PHP UTF-8 rather than
> single 
> byte ASCII, and one of the options is to run ICU with the compiler
switch 
> U_CHARSET_IS_UTF8 to take advantage of the much faster UTF-8 code
already
> built 
> into ICU. I've seem the various threads about installing ICU in windows
> and the 
> like, but does Firebird take advantage of this? I'm ore than happy with
30
> ASCII 
> characters for the metacode as long as I can simply store UTF-8 data IN
> the 
> database so I've not taken much notice of the debate in this area, but I
> assume 
> there has been a similar one here? ;)

I am not sure what you mean, but Firebird metadata is already unicode.

Mark

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