31 Jan
2012
31 Jan
'12
3:41 p.m.
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Yakov Galka <ybungalobill@gmail.com> wrote:
Unicode algorithms work on code points (UCS-4) internally. Everything else can be encoded in some (narrow) execution character set capable of storing Unicode. Almost no-one implements Unicode algorithms, thus we can practically assume that one encoding is sufficient on each platform.
That's totally at odds with my experience. A client deals with many database files ever day from many different sources. Most are encoded in UTF-8, but some are encoded in UTF-16 or non-Unicode schemes. That's life. Get over it:-) --Beman