Japanese and Chinese characters in same DB

Gervase Markham gerv at mozilla.org
Thu Oct 17 17:07:21 UTC 2002


HORIUCHI Takahiko wrote:
> So, I want ask you bugzilla experts. Is it dangerous to mix
> different encodings in same MySQL database, or will it work
> fine in some degree?

It's all just 1s and 0s. It should work fine. You have responsibility 
for sending the data correctly labelled to the browser :-)

> There's a Japanese localized version of bugzilla. But I want
> to use English version if there's not so serious problems.
> Because for Chinese member, it's easy to understand English
> than Japanese. 

The Japanese localised version is, as far as I know, a few versions 
behind and doesn't support useful new stuff like templates.

> I know this is not a question for developers. Sorry...

Indeed. Please ask such questions in the newsgroup: 
netscape.public.mozilla.webtools .

Gerv




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