At 05:39 PM 15/12/2004 -0500, you wrote:

>:: >Uncompressed UTF 8 - is 8 bytes.
>
>Sorry I should have written 8 bits. Individual characters can of course be
>bigger and in most non English/Latin sets they are.
>
>:: bytes. If you're interested, do try to seek out Peter
>:: Jacobi's postings on the subject of UNICODE_FSS and how it
>:: could be made to behave more politely according to various UTF rules.
>
>I tried, but YG's search function really sucks - it shows you a few results
>at a time and you have to "research" each block. It only searches a block at
>a time (And I don't mean just paging resutls, it only searches one block at
>a time. No results found in 10000-10250, try next block!)

Use the archives at atkin. In fact, up to "a certain date in the past",
the postings are also in a searchable database at www.ibphoenix.com. Also
try google.

>:: Upper-casing and ordering are problems, because the Fb
>:: implementation of U_FSS has no collations alternative to
>
>Hmm. That should not affect me, but good to know. Cant FB rely on the OS at
>all here? I just need to store, look up, etc.

No. The OS feeds in data, the application ensures that the database gets
what it thinks it's getting; in reverse, the database supplies and the
application is responsible for giving the OS what it expects.

./hb