Hello David,

DJ> There may be legal issue too. Recently a law was passed in China that
DJ> all software distributed within China must conform to a specific
DJ> standard (I don't recall the standard). On the Firebird-architects
DJ> list, one of the UTF8 critics came to the conclusion that UTFx support
DJ> was a necessity when he reviewed that standard - BG_2312 would not do.
I see.

DJ> But, the big killer is that the app must support both English and
DJ> chinese concurrently to start. UTF8 provides this support whereas other
DJ> cod page based solutions do not.
Doesn't GB_2312 support both English and Chinese? For example WIN1251
supports both English and Russian?


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Pavel Menshchikov
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