Lisa Moore wrote:
> Jianping wrote:
>
> only Oracle provides fully UTF-8 and
> UTF-16 support for RDBMS
>
> Whoa...let me interject, DB2 for OS/390 supports UTF-8 and UTF-16. And DB2
> for Intel, Unix, supported both much earlier. I cannot speak to Jiangping's
> intrepretation of "fully"
>
The "fully" here means to follow UTF-8 and UTF-16 standard with supplementary
support. From this point of view, I don't think DB2 supports them as I checked
its latest documentation on line that it only supports USC-2 with UTF-8 up to
three-byte encoding.
Checking with other vendors implementation, Microsoft only supports UTF-16 and
Sybase supports UTF-16 but only UTF-8 up to three-byte encoding, I come up with
my claim. I have not done fully study with other database vendors, but I
welcome anyone to challenge me on this.
>
> Shouldn't a war about UTF-8 be discussed on Unicore?
>
It should not be a war but rather a technical discussion. But as some people on
this list took a wrong position to make personal or company attack, I and
Oracle have to defend for it.
Regards,
Jianping.
>
> Lisa
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