| Subject | Re: [firebird-support] running Firebird without fbintl |
|---|---|
| Author | Hamish Moffatt |
| Post date | 2018-07-06T00:07:45Z |
On 05/07/18 21:06, Mark Rotteveel
mark@... [firebird-support] wrote:
On 5-7-2018 09:28, Hamish Moffatt hamish@...
[firebird-support] wrote:
> So, what is the impact of removing fbintl? What functionality do I lose?
You lose almost all character set support, including UTF-8.
Right. Meaning ORDER BY character fields as well as functions like substring(), char_length()?
In the absence of fbintl does Firebird interpret those fields just as pure ASCII/Latin1 then?
Hamish