| From: | Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp> |
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| To: | hannu(at)tm(dot)ee |
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| Subject: | Re: OCTET_LENGTH is wrong |
| Date: | 2001-11-26 08:45:48 |
| Message-ID: | 20011126174548K.t-ishii@sra.co.jp |
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> > I see. But that really doesn't have anything to do with reality. In
> > fact, it completely undermines the transparency of the character set
> > encoding that we're probably trying to achieve.
>
> COLLATION being independent of character set is a separate problem
> from COLLATION being _defined_ on character set - without a known
> character set I can't see how you can define it.
> i.e. "COLLACTION for any 8-bit charset" just does not make sense.
Correct. IGNORE_CASE collation will not apply to some languages those
do not have upper/lower case concept such as Japanese.
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Tatsuo Ishii
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