Yes, unfortunately, that book is out of print.
Adam
> Luckily the Irish leprechaun Mr O'Reilly is also an expert on Japan ...
> the book you need is "Understanding Japanese Information Processing",
> by Ken Lunde, in the O'Reilly nutshell series.
> ISBN 1-56592-043-0
> I've not actually done Japanese processing, got this info from
> my brother in Japan.
> Basically its multibyte unicodes, and its all standardised,
> i.e. there are plenty of different standards to choose from 8-)
> I think RedHat comes with howto's for other languages, but have not read
them.
> In japan, JDOS & Windows-J are common I gather.
>
> good luck,
> brian
>
>
>
> At 06:43 PM 18/01/00 +1100, Adam Kennedy wrote:
> >Hi sluggers
> >
> >I'm looking for a way of doing a database for the international market,
the
> >focus being Japan, but to include other countries.
> >For now I'm focusing on English and Japanese.
> >
> >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....?
> >
> >Sorry it's a little off topic, but nobody can give me a straight answer
and
> >I'm getting desperate...
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >Adam
>
> ----------------------------------------------
> Brian Martin, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Future Software Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia.
>
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