Sorry for dealy.
> On Tue, May 29, 2007 20:51, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
>
> > Thinking more, it striked me that users can define arbitarily growing
> > rate by using CFREATE CONVERSION. So it seems we need functionality to
> > define the growing rate anyway.
>
> Would it make sense to define just the longest and shortest character
> lengths for an encoding? Then for any conversion you'd have a safe
> estimate of
>
> ceil(target_encoding.max_char_len / source_encoding.min_char_len)
>
> ...without going through every possible conversion.
This will not work since certain CONVERSION allows n char to m char
conversion.
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Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan