ITAGAKI Takahiro skrev:
>> I guess it works well for % but not for _ , the latter has to know, how
>> many bytes the current (multibyte) character covers.
>
> Yes, % is not used in trailing bytes for all encodings, but _ is
> used in some of them. I think we can use the optimization for all
> of the server encodings except JOHAB.
The problem with the like pattern _ is that it has to know how long the
single caracter is that it should pass over. Say you have a UTF-8 string
with 2 characters encoded in 3 bytes ('ÖA'). Where the first character
is 2 bytes:
0xC3 0x96 'A'
and now you want to match that with the LIKE pattern:
'_A'
How would that work in the C locale?
Maybe one should simply write a special version of LIKE for the UTF-8
encoding since it's probably the most used encoding today. But I don't
think you can use the C locale and that it would work for UTF-8.
/Dennis
