Re: Multilingual database - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Terence Ng
Subject Re: Multilingual database
Date
Msg-id 20030512104947.65705.qmail@web41104.mail.yahoo.com
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In response to Re: Multilingual database  ("M. Bastin" <marcbastin@mindspring.com>)
List pgsql-novice
Thanks for your idea.  What if I give every language a
table for title and description, and use the code as a
relation?  And one more table for the code, price and
photos.  Please criticize!

 --- "M. Bastin" <marcbastin@mindspring.com> wrote: >
Use two tables (all in UTF8, if you're sure your
> front-end handles
> this), the first holding the general product
> information like code
> and price, and then the other one holding a record
> for each language,
> with the code (as a relation to the other table with
> general
> information), the language, and the description in
> that language.
>
> At 10:48 AM +0800 5/10/03, Terence Ng wrote:
> >Hi!
> >
> >I would like to store the title and description of
> a
> >product in different languages.  Should I use
> unicode
> >(UTF-8) to store the different languages in one
> >database, or I should initialize different
> databases
> >for the different languages?  I appreciate if
> someone
> >can give me some suggestions and what I should
> aware
> >of.  I have use the keyword "multilingual" to
> search
> >the achrieves but cannot find an answer.
> >
> >Terence
> >
>
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