New Features In MySQL 6.x

Yesterday I started to say what the status is for “Globalization” tasks.
Today I continue.

Worklog WL#1875 Case insensitive Czech collation
Status: not passed architecture review
Version = 6.1
This fills a minor gap, since our Czech collations for the cp1250 and latin2 character sets are case sensitive.
This task adds appropriate _ci (case insensitive) collations.

WL#2555 Standard Japanese collation support
Status: not passed architecture review
Version = 6.x
JIS (Japanese Industrial Standard) JIS X 4061-1996 specifies a standard collation for Japanese characters, with multiple levels and special rules.

WL#2673 Unicode Collation Algorithm new version
Status: passed architecture review 2009-03-23
Version = 6.x
MySQL is using Version 4.0.0 of the UCA (Unicode Collation Algorithm). That’s superseded. We’ll make new collations for the more recent UCA version.

WL#3090 Japanese Character Set Adjustments
Status: not passed architecture review
Version = 6.1
This task has shrunk a bit since we didn’t get feedback from the Japanese community for some parts, but there will be error messages for junk characters and a faster cp932-to-sjis conversion algorithm.

WL#3332 Korean Enhancements
Status: not passed architecture review
Version = 6.1
In euckr and cp949 character sets there are some reported discrepancies with standards, and collation feature requests.

WL#3997 New euckr characters
Status: passed code review
Version = 6.1
In the Korean euckr character set allow euro sign and registered sign, (but not Circled Hangul Ieung U i.e. “Postal code mark”).

WL#4013 Unicode german2 collation
Status: in code review
Version = 6.1
A DIN-2 (phone book) collation similar to latin1_german2_ci.

WL#4024 gb18030 Chinese character set
Status: not passed architecture review
Version = 7.1
MySQL can handle Chinese characters using several character sets (big5, gb2312, gbk, and of course all the Unicode sets).
But a newer character set, gb18030, is becoming popular in mainland China. We’ll support it too.

I’ll continue tomorrow.

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