Sergey Mereutsa wrote:

>
> JS> 1. The database engine itself is strictly utf8 only. Character set
>
> I`m not an expert, but from my expirience, working in pure UTF8 is not
> a good idea - it is slow. May be any binary Unicode format is better?
> Or speed is not a goal at all?
>
> P.S. All our texts are in UTF8 (because of 2 languages required by
> default - romanian and russian). Sometimes it is a pain.
>

Jim's plan is to translate between character sets at the client end,
so an application can request that strings be returned in any known
character set. Character sets are defined by their translation into
UTF-8, so character sets unknown to Nimbus can be defined locally.


Why do you say UTF-8 is slow?

Cheers,

Ann