Re: language support

mike writes:

> I know that there is multibyte language support for languages like Korean, japanese, big5, but
> what about languages like arabic, and hebrew?
>  or would this fall under unicode, and not multibyte?

Multibyte support isn't tied to a particular language.  I does two rather
unrelated things:

* handle multibyte character sets

* allow for character set conversion between client and server

If Arabic or Hebrew have single-byte character sets available then things
should just work.  Otherwise you might have to teach the conversion code
about these character sets.

Getting left-to-right vs. right-to-left to work correctly might be a much
harder problem.

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