> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 18:43:29 +1100
>
> What I would like to know is how I would go about using MySQL PostGres etc
> in such a way that it can hold English and Japanese data at the same time. I
> gather it would be some sort of unicode? Is it even possible?
>
> How does one deal with languages with characters outside the Latin
> characterset, or rather how do you get multiple character sets inside the
> same table....?
2 ways I can think of:-
1) encode the character set into ascii and store that. You'll have to
write a wrapper to handle all input and output with the database.
2) use the 'blob' or 'longblob' objects to store any type of object
(including images if you're that perverted).
Selecting the data would be a bitch. You can't select on blob or
longblob types either. I suggest you see if mysql supports unicode.
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