Thread: multi-national character sets?
Hello all, I'm looking for a few good pointers to docs on how to handle multinational character sets (European exclusively) with PostgreSQL and PHP for a web database application. Currently using PHP 3.0.16 and PostgreSQL 6.5.2 but I can upgrade if that helps. I see in the docs that you can compile in multi-byte support, but I have no idea how that works, for comparisons with LIKE or regexps, as well as for sorting with ORDER BY. Do "c" and "c-cedille" or "e" and "e-aigu" end up together or do I need to handle that programmatically? I don't mind doing the homework, but I'm hoping somebody on this list can point me in the right direction. Thanks --Louis <louis@bertrandtech.on.ca>
>>>>> "LB" == Louis Bertrand <louis@bertrandtech.on.ca> writes: LB> Hello all, LB> I'm looking for a few good pointers to docs on how to handle multinational LB> character sets (European exclusively) with PostgreSQL and PHP for a LB> web database application. Currently using PHP 3.0.16 and PostgreSQL 6.5.2 LB> but I can upgrade if that helps. LB> I see in the docs that you can compile in multi-byte support, but I have LB> no idea how that works, for comparisons with LIKE or regexps, as well as LB> for sorting with ORDER BY. Do "c" and "c-cedille" or "e" and "e-aigu" end LB> up together or do I need to handle that programmatically? LB> I don't mind doing the homework, but I'm hoping somebody on this list can LB> point me in the right direction. See doc/README.mb and doc/README.locale files in the distribution set. -- Anatoly K. Lasareff Email: tolik@aaanet.ru