UTF-8 compatible DBMS

Roderick A Gammon C3-Tech at hawaii.rr.com
Wed Nov 22 02:03:11 PST 2000


OK, indeed postgres does seem support UTF-8.  In fact I installed it with
pre-cooked rpms months ago and I am glad to find the functionality (though
yet to test it).  For the interested, "createdb -E UNICODE foo" is all one
needs to make a fine UTF-8 database. The READEME.mb helped, although the
search engine at the website was less useful (brought up a bunch of messages
asking for utf-8 support, a little misleading).

Anyway, thanks Gary for pointing out my error.  I'll repost once the db is
done, in case anyone out there likes Mandarin ala Linux.

In other news, mySql still seems not to support utf-8 but will someday.
Interbase supports a "Unicode_fss" which may be "FSS-UTF", UTF-8's first
name, but a lack of clear docs there too.

Thanks-
rod g

-----Original Message-----
From: gsublett at lava.net [mailto:gsublett at lava.net]
Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 10:02 PM
To: Linux Users Anonymous
Subject: [luau] RE: UTF-8 compatible DBMS



On 22-Nov-00 Roderick A Gammon wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a UTF-8 compatible DBMS for linux?  It appears
> that
> Postgres and MySQL aren't, but I'm often wrong.
>
> I'm putting a Mandarin dictionary online with JDBC and PHP front ends.
>
You are mis-informed. Postgres supports UTF-8, get the source tarball and
look for README.mb. Also, you could head over to www.postgresql.org and
do a search on UTF-8 - should get enough hits to investigate.

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Gary

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