Hi Zvi,
I haven't used MySQL, put when you compile PostgreSQL you can compile it
for unicode support. It will then use utf-8 data within the database.
Andj
----- Original Message -----
From: Zvi Har'El <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Linux UTF8 Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2001 5:42 AM
Subject: UTF8 Data Base
> Hi,
>
> I have a large database of bibliographic material in varius languages.
> Currently, I use MySQL with its default character set, latin1. However, I
wish
> to add entries in non-western-european languages, for which I need a
UNICODE
> database. I wish to set mysql character set to UTF-8, and not to any
> particular language. Perhaps I need to define a fixed language for some of
the
> columns, to allow sorting using a collating sequence, but other columns,
like
> an article title, can be in a variable language (i.e, some of the articles
may
> have English title while other Russian). Is it possible to spacify a
variable
> language/UTF-8 encoding to MySQL? or do I need to use another data base
(which
> is freely available in linux?) I'll be much obliged if you could give me a
clue
> how to proceed.
>
> All the best,
>
> Zvi.
>
>
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> Dr. Zvi Har'El mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of
Mathematics
> tel:+972-54-227607 Technion - Israel Institute of
Technology
> fax:+972-4-8324654 http://www.math.technion.ac.il/~rl/ Haifa 32000,
ISRAEL
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(1942)
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