Feature wishlist:
-UTF-8 (later ucs4 too) handling beside the existing unicode handling in db and db funtions (e.g. it's very useful in web service enviroment)
UTF-8 ?
I don't see, why it should matter which format the database uses internally - as long as it is Unicode -, because usually the database-api your application converts the strings into the charset your application uses - for Java this would be UCS2 (char is 2 byte in Java) and for Windows' Unicode it would be either UCS2.
In addition, UCS2 uses exactly 2 bytes for each char - and UTF-8 uses 1-3 (or even more) bytes per char.
You can imagine, that UCS2 might be very good for sorting stuff etc.
I couldn't explain, why MySQL and PostgreSQL use UTF-8 - can anybody explain that to me?
If i'm correct, UCS2 is a real subset of UCS4 - so a DB should think about UCS4 - although i don't know any language that uses UCS4 or even UTF-8.
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