On 4 May 2005 at 22:56, Dmitry Yemanov wrote:

>"Jim Starkey" <jas@...> wrote:
>>
>> Yes, one the client side. In the scheme under discussion, all
>> character data is transfered as utf-8.
>
>And this is what I don't like. Doesn't it require the INTL stuff be
>installed on the client side?

No. Client library does not need to care about collations and
sorting. For conversion from utf-8 to application charset and back
system routines can be used. Such as WideCharToMultiByte on Windows
or iconv library on POSIX.
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SY, Dimitry Sibiryakov.