Thank you, that is the best news I have heard in a while :-)
-Mont
On Mar 19, 2005, at 6:49 PM, John DeSoi wrote:
>
> On Mar 18, 2005, at 5:54 PM, Mont Rothstein wrote:
>
>> I need to store multiple languages in one database (English, Spanish,
>> Chinese, Korean, ???). At first I thought I would just us Unicode,
>> but then I realized that it is only UTF-8 and it is my understanding
>> that UTF-8 is insufficient for Chinese and Korean. I state this
>> because I am starting to think that it is possible this assumption is
>> incorrect.
>
> Your assumption is incorrect. The idea of unicode is to have a single
> character set for representing all languages. UTF-8 is a
> representation of unicode and is designed to encode any unicode
> character.
>
> See http://www.unicode.org/ and
>
> http://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html.
>
>
>
> John DeSoi, Ph.D.
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