Actually, we are; in one moo this fall (translation studies), and we'll try to patch our other moos before next semester. It's not really "public" though. Anyway, it's doing great so far.
It's a gross hack. Doing better would be a lot of fun.
Feel free to do that... What is "better"?
- In-MOO strings handled as UCS-4 arrays;
- Database uses UTF-8;
- External connections use iconv to convert to any character set (although UTF-8 is quickly taking over the world, so perhaps it's better to discourage the use of non-UTF-8 character sets);
- Handling of Unicode extensions to the regular expressions set;
- A separate byte array data type for binary data;
- Some kind of interface to the Unicode properties database. Although this can technically be done in-DB, I think it might be better to have that in the server, to make sure it is in sync.
-hpa
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