Elaine, Tague,
You might talk to the folks at NuSphere to ask about their Unicode
plans and/or let them know of your interest in a Unicode version.
tex
Tague Griffith wrote:
>
> My recomendation for using Unicode with a database would be Oracle.
> Oracle supports Unicode (as UTF-8) quite well and has the language data
> for many locales as part of the universal install. I also prefer that
> it is easier to configure the database character set independently of
> the OS localization and that you aren't limited to using nvarchar,
> nchar, etc. datatypes if you want to use Unicode.
>
> SQLServer also has Unicode support through the use of nvarchar, nchar,
> etc datatypes which are always UCS-2. SQLServer will probably be a
> cheaper and simpler option to install (although i don't find the Oracle
> install all that complex).
>
> Unfortunately, MySQL currently doesn't support Unicode, possibly in a
> future version.
>
> /t
>
> Elaine Keown wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > A friend who is off-list asked me to inquire about Unicode-compatible SQL and
>database options. He has been told that Microsoft SQL is now available in Unicode,
>but he usually uses the Macintosh. What other options are there now in the various
>kinds of databases, probably on the smaller end of the scale?
> > He's interested in the database having the capability of having a Web front-end--I
>think that's absolutely critical for him. He's doing Hebrew and a tiny bit of
>Aramaic in his project, so I think he would need at least Unicode 2.0 compatibility,
>with Unicode 3.0 the best choice.
> >
> > Elaine Keown
> >
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