Comments on: Unicode is not a silver bullet http://blogs.mysql.com/yoshinori/2008/10/02/unicode-is-not-a-silver-bullet/ Just another Blogs.mysql.com weblog Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:32:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: yoshinori http://blogs.mysql.com/yoshinori/2008/10/02/unicode-is-not-a-silver-bullet/#comment-4 yoshinori Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:31:39 +0000 http://blogs.mysql.com/yoshinori/?p=5#comment-4 Tim, I understand. Requirements highly depend on countries. In Japan, many applications are fine if both Japanese and English characters are correctly stored and retrieved. In general, pictures, audio and video should not be stored on database servers, but on file servers because database servers are not easier to scale out. Then size difference between encodings is relatively going bigger. Tim,
I understand. Requirements highly depend on countries. In Japan, many applications are fine if both Japanese and English characters are correctly stored and retrieved.

In general, pictures, audio and video should not be stored on database servers, but on file servers because database servers are not easier to scale out. Then size difference between encodings is relatively going bigger.

]]> By: Tim Bray http://blogs.mysql.com/yoshinori/2008/10/02/unicode-is-not-a-silver-bullet/#comment-3 Tim Bray Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:59:27 +0000 http://blogs.mysql.com/yoshinori/?p=5#comment-3 Quoting: "Since Unicode is a superset of local encodings, there are some words (i.e. Chinese) which can not be converted to Japanese encodings." and that's the problem. If you never have to mix text, local encodings are great. But in general, usually you do. Also, my disk is almost full of pictures and audio and video, the text is in the rounding error :) Quoting: “Since Unicode is a superset of local encodings, there are some words (i.e. Chinese) which can not be converted to Japanese encodings.” and that’s the problem. If you never have to mix text, local encodings are great. But in general, usually you do.

Also, my disk is almost full of pictures and audio and video, the text is in the rounding error :)

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