Re: [OSS] Re: To Do: Localization of PHP [MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc]

Dear Viet Tran,

At 03:38 04.03.2003 +0000, you wrote:
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>Dear Stefan,
>Many thanks for the recent flood of useful information on OSS. I have read
>them
>all, but I felt that policy issues are better left to bureaucrats to sort them
>out !

There are many of them on this list!

>The localisation issue is not a simple task to accomplish if we also aim at
>supporting Unicode or UTF-8. The reasons are explained below.

mySQL, latest version at least, supports UTF-8. So, I think, that part is
taken care of already. It should be mainly (only?) about the mentioned
"sorting tables", Upper/lower case conversion tables, date and currency
format etc.

>There is still a wide gap in performance between FLOSS RDBMS and
>professional ones !

This statement implies that FLOSS Database systems are not "professional".
I permanently fight against the wrong polarization "FLOSS vs. commercial"
or "FLOSS vs. professional" or similar "comparisons". I guess you understand.

Regarding performance: Yes, it might be, but it might not matter.
Computing power gets more and more. There are many applications, where
speed does not matter too much, e.g. if I am serving a limited (known)
number of users over a slow Internet connection.
And there are situations, where the cost of a non-free Database system
might be higher than the increased risk (if there is) of a free one.

Stefan

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