Alex Peshkov wrote:

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>>Ascii is the lower 7 bits of Unicode, so all ascii strings are valid
>>UTF-8 strings. Any UDF expecting and receiving ASCII will work just
>>fine. And UDF depending solely on string length or string termination
>>will probably work just fine as well. For most string processing UTF-8
>>and ascii are interchangeable. The only sticking points is where the
>>code makes an assumption concerning the number glyphs vs. the number of
>>bytes, something that doesn't happen often in database functions.
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>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.
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Could you describe the problems you expect? There maybe be
straightforward ways to address them.


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