[Refdb-users] Re: Is refdb international?

[Markus H. <hoe...@co...>]

Hi Janusz,

I did some research regarding my options to support Unicode (as a
prerequisite for supporting UNIMARC). RefDB should have little if any
problems to support UTF-8 if the console or xterm support it too. The
problem is the database server itself. While you could add UTF-8
strings to MySQL databases right now, running queries with regular
expressions would not work as expected. Rumours say that MySQL 4.1
will support UTF-8, so this is a matter of time (the current
*experimental* version is 4.0). PostgreSQL can handle UTF-8 right now,
but the easiest way to include support for multiple database servers
into RefDB (libdbi.sourceforge.net) isn't ready for prime time
yet. I'll do my best to add the missing features to this library in
order to support PostgreSQL as soon as possible, but I'm afraid it'll
take a few months.

I'll add a note to the manual about the current state of character set
support in the next version.

regards,
Markus
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