Re: [Firebird-devel] Server-side plugins and character sets

2014-07-02 Thread Alex Peshkoff
On 07/01/14 19:26, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote: Hi! We should decide what should happens with character sets and server-side plugins. I talked specifically at external engines, but the same may be valid for trace and whatever. My idea is that the ExternalContext should have a

Re: [Firebird-devel] Server-side plugins and character sets

2014-07-02 Thread Paul Beach
Just one tech detail - if we define such method somewhere in main interfaces set (like IUtl) would not it mean that fbclient library start to depend from ICU? Telling true there is _big_ desire to avoid such dependency, specially on windows. And on MacOSX. Regards Paul

Re: [Firebird-devel] Server-side plugins and character sets

2014-07-02 Thread Dimitry Sibiryakov
02.07.2014 15:51, Alex Peshkoff wrote: Getting const char* in UTF8 charset is OK for most cases. Why not wchar_t? -- WBR, SD. -- Open source business process management suite built on Java and Eclipse Turn

Re: [Firebird-devel] Server-side plugins and character sets

2014-07-02 Thread Adriano dos Santos Fernandes
On 02/07/2014 10:51, Alex Peshkoff wrote: On 07/01/14 19:26, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote: Hi! We should decide what should happens with character sets and server-side plugins. I talked specifically at external engines, but the same may be valid for trace and whatever. My idea is

Re: [Firebird-devel] Server-side plugins and character sets

2014-07-02 Thread Dimitry Sibiryakov
02.07.2014 15:51, Alex Peshkoff wrote: Just one tech detail - if we define such method somewhere in main interfaces set (like IUtl) would not it mean that fbclient library start to depend from ICU? Telling true there is_big_ desire to avoid such dependency, specially on windows. Every

Re: [Firebird-devel] Server-side plugins and character sets

2014-07-02 Thread Alex Peshkoff
On 07/02/14 18:42, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote: On 02/07/2014 10:51, Alex Peshkoff wrote: On 07/01/14 19:26, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote: Hi! We should decide what should happens with character sets and server-side plugins. I talked specifically at external engines, but the

Re: [Firebird-devel] Server-side plugins and character sets

2014-07-01 Thread Dimitry Sibiryakov
01.07.2014 17:26, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote: We should decide what should happens with character sets and server-side plugins. I talked specifically at external engines, but the same may be valid for trace and whatever. Opinions? Make them unicode-only as had been suggested many

Re: [Firebird-devel] Server-side plugins and character sets

2014-07-01 Thread Adriano dos Santos Fernandes
On 01/07/2014 12:30, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote: 01.07.2014 17:26, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote: We should decide what should happens with character sets and server-side plugins. I talked specifically at external engines, but the same may be valid for trace and whatever. Opinions?