From: "Peter Eisentraut" <pete...@gmx.net>
On Tue, 2013-09-24 at 21:04 +0900, MauMau wrote:
"4. I guess some users really want to continue to use ShiftJIS or EUC_JP
for
database encoding, and use NCHAR for a limited set of columns to store
international text in Unicode:
- to avoid code conversion between the server and the client for
performance
- because ShiftJIS and EUC_JP require less amount of storage (2 bytes for
most Kanji) than UTF-8 (3 bytes)
This use case is described in chapter 6 of "Oracle Database Globalization
Support Guide"."
But your proposal wouldn't address the first point, because data would
have to go client -> server -> NCHAR.
The second point is valid, but it's going to be an awful amount of work
for that limited result.
I (or, Oracle's use case) meant the following, for example:
initdb -E EUC_JP
CREATE DATABASE mydb ENCODING EUC_JP NATIONAL ENCODING UTF-8;
CREATE TABLE mytable (
col1 char(10), -- EUC_JP text
col2 Nchar(10), -- UTF-8 text
);
client encoding = EUC_JP
That is,
1. Currently, the user is only handling Japanese text. To avoid unnecessary
conversion, he uses EUC_JP for both client and server.
2. He needs to store some limited amount of international (non-Japanese)
text in a few columns for a new feature of the system. But the
international text is limited, so he wants to sacrifice performance and
storage cost due to code conversion for most text and more bytes for each
character.
Regards
MauMau
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