Обсуждение: Multiple languages in one database

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.

My question is this, is anyone storing multiple languages (including
non-latin based languages such as Chinese and Korean) in one DB and if
so how?

My need is to store strings of text for each support language.  Ex: for
a given English string there would also be a Spanish, Chinese, and
Korean string.  This would then be used for language specific output in
web pages, print (PDF?), and in email.

I would really appreciate any help or pointers on this.

Thanks,
-Mont

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.
http://pgedit.com/
Power Tools for PostgreSQL

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.
> http://pgedit.com/
> Power Tools for PostgreSQL
>
>
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