[rt-devel] Localization

[Christian Gilmore]

What in perl-5.6.1 isn't able to support unicode? We've not yet found
issues, but I'd very much like to hear if there are.

Thanks,
Christian

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Christian Gilmore
Technology Leader
GeT WW Global Applications Development
IBM Software Group


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jesse Vincent [mailto:jesse at bestpractical.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 11:13 AM
> To: Christian Gilmore
> Cc: rt-devel at fsck.com
> Subject: Re: [rt-devel] Localization
>
>
> Postgres can be coaxed into it at install time. Sadly, we're
> still waiting
> on mysql, though I believe that the current state of things
> works properly
> for storage and retrieval and just falls down on sorting.
> It _looks_ like support for two-byte charsets mayy end up requiring
> perl 5.8 for proper unicode support.  We've ended up going with
> UTF-8 for things for now, as it dovetails with
> non-utf-supporting pieces
> somewhat more nicely.
>
> On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 09:15:48AM -0500, Christian Gilmore wrote:
> > Is the database already configured to use UTF-16/Unicode in
> its tables?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Christian
>
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