Jason Tackaberry wrote: > On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 18:19 +0200, Dirk Meyer wrote: >> I don't get it? Why use string at all? IMHO we should convert _every_ >> string to Unicode. > > [...] > >> Not good. Always use unicode inside. If the vfs works with UTF-8 and >> my system with Latin-1, I get in trouble with strings. So always >> unicode. > > It will work, because latin-1 strings will get properly converted to > utf-8.
Yes, you can put everything as utf-8 in the database. But IMHO we
should use unicode all the time. And maybe a user has latin-2 or
something. Or maybe the string already is utf-8.
> I do see what you're saying, but I can't say offhand if it will work
> because of how pysqlite handles queries "WHERE foo IN ('string1',
> 'string2')". I agree that it's better to store everything as unicode
> strings. I'll look into it.
Yes, only unicode should be used inside kaa. We also accept str as
input (e.g. files), but shoul dnever return str ourself.
Dischi
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