Databases
- Postgres has limited multibyte support.
- You hardly need it.
- If you need regular expressions in the server, well then.
- Decode high bit entities if dealing with HTML.
- For sorting, Sort::ArbBiLex. Article on International Sorting in TPJ #14.
- Use separate column in clever ASCII for sorting.
- Length of a column is always in byte, not characters.
Internationalization
O'Reilly Apache Conference,
24 August 1999
Andreas König (on CPAN: ANDK)
<andreas.koenig@anima.de>