Alex Peshkov wrote:

>
> I'm afraid it's likely to have problems with cyrillic strings. Now they
> are stored in single byte format (CP1251). And a lot of UDFs expect
> single byte characters. In UTF-8 cyrillic characters are 2-byte.

We'll need a interface layer to deliver strings to clients in their
desired character sets. No doubt that same mechanism can be interposed
between old-style UDF's and the engine.

Regards,


Ann