[Refdb-users] umlauts

[<mar...@mh...>]

Hi Scott,

this depends a lot on what database server you use and how it is
configured. Remember that RefDB passes characters unmodified to the
database server, so you can use any character that the database server
can handle.

Current MySQL versions can handle one charset per server
instance. According to the docs of my version, the following charsets
are available:

big5 	
czech 	
dec8 	
dos 	
german1 
hp8 	
koi8_ru 
latin1	
latin2	
swe7 	
usa7 	
ujis 	
sjis 	
cp1251	
danish	
hebrew	
win1251 
tis620	
euc_kr	
estonia 
hungarian 
koi8_ukr  
win1251ukr
gb2312	  
greek 	  
win1250   
croat 	  
gbk 	  
cp1257	  
latin5	  

PostgreSQL allows to use different charsets for each
database. Available are:

SQL_ASCII
EUC_JP
EUC_CN
EUC_KR
EUC_TW
UNICODE
MULE_INTERNAL
LATIN1
LATIN2
LATIN3
LATIN4
LATIN5
LATIN6
LATIN7
LATIN8
LATIN9
LATIN10
ISO-8859-5
ISO-8859-6
ISO-8859-7
ISO-8859-8
KOI8
WIN
ALT

I suppose that with both databases one of the LATIN charsets would
catch most European "weird" characters. Unicode is not yet available
in the MySQL version that I run here but it should be in versions 4
and later. PostgreSQL does support Unicode, so I'd suggest this to be
on the safe side.

regards,
Markus

Scott Harrison writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > Does refdb support umlauts and other "weird" characters
 > for author names?  Reading through the (some) docs and looking
 > at the example testrefs.ris file, it is not immediately clear.
 > 
 > I saw a few tidbits about unicode...
 > 

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