Hello Emmanuel, SAP DB/MaxDB does not have a CHAR type that is in UTF8 encoding. Only ascii (data type CHAR/VARCHAR ASCII) and UCS2 (data type CHAR/VARCHAR UNICODE) are supported.
Whether it is necessary or possible to use UTF8 in your client depends on the client language - what you are using? If you only want to store UTF8 data, you can use either CHAR/VARCHAR BYTE or CHAR/VARCHAR ASCII, but of course this storage would mess up any indexing , searching, and ordered output. Regards Alexander Schr�der SAP DB, SAP Labs Berlin > -----Original Message----- > From: Languillat, Emmanuel > Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 11:34 AM > To: MaxDB > Subject: UTF-8 > > > Dear SapDB Team, > > This question was asked in May 2003, but I would like to know if > SAP DB supports now UTF-8 encoding ? > If not, and because I suppose that it is not possible to transform > UTF-8 to UCS2, I am thinking about recording strings as > VARCHAR(%n) BYTE. > What do you think about this idea ? > > Kind regards, Emmanuel > > -- > MaxDB Discussion Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/maxdb > To unsubscribe: > http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- MaxDB Discussion Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/maxdb To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
