Re: Representing data on disk in an MV database - was Re: foundations of relational theory? - some references for the truly starving

"Jonathan Leffler" <jleffler_at_earthlink.net> wrote in message news:l72mb.4070$wc3.1528_at_newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> Dear Mikito,
>
> I think you owe Mike an apology.

I apologyse. It was rude to criticize the level of your sweet character coding discussion.

> If you want to discuss the wisdom of using those markers, you might
> ask how an MV database stores Turkish names which use the y-umlaut
> character, because that is coded as 0xFF or 255 in the ISO Latin-1
> character set. And similarly for the other mark bytes. That advances
> the discussion constructively and makes use (rather than abuse) of the
> bandwidth - of both the Internet and the people reading this group.

I'm sorry, but this idea obvious to anybody who heard the word "unicode". Received on Fri Oct 24 2003 - 11:13:06 CDT