Re: [Refdb-users] Is refdb international?

[<js...@mi...>]

On Fri, 24 May 2002  "Markus Hoenicka" <hoe...@co...> wrote:

> This is a good question. I personally do not have any experience with
> non-standard character sets, but the limiting step is basically the
> storage in the SQL database. Recent versions of MySQL allow to select
> the character set (per server, afaik). Information about supported
> character sets is available in the MySQL handbook at www.mysql.com.

I hope MySQL supports UNICODE in some form, which would be the optimal
solution.

Another limiting factor may be the RIS format. Do I understand
correctly that it is an informal standard introduced by commercial
software?  BTW, I think it would be good to include the explicit
answer to this question in the documentation. Anyway, what character
codes are used in practice in existing RIS files? Is UNICODE
explicitly allowed?

> 
> It would be great if you could test the setup with your specific
> language needs and see whether refdb adds any unnecessary
> constraints. I'll be happy to work out these problems.

I definitely intend to make some experiments, as I am quite impressed
by the system. 

Yesterday I made a quick try to install refdb in my office on Debian
Woody. I don't remember exactly the messages (I write now from home),
but the configure failed because libreadline is not present in Woody -
it has been replaced by something else, which in turn is not
recognized by refdb's configure.

Best regards

Janusz

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Prof. Janusz S. Bien, Warsaw Uniwersity
http://www.orient.uw.edu.pl/~jsbien/
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