Re: Unicode-capable software

Posted in 1997

Tim Schaefer — Wed, 05 Mar 1997 19:00:47 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Richard A. Schulman wrote: The fact that the other RDBMSes still don't properly support Unicode is a major disgrace. Interbase and Oracle's recent versions only support UTF-8. Illustra did have Unicode support, but its new owner Informix doesn't. MS and Sybase SQL Server don't. IBM's DB2 doesn't and seems to have only one employee (in Toronto) who even cares about this.. (So much for the pretenses of the "Universal Server" databases.) Excuse my ignorance, but, Why is unicode support important to you??? This is a point of education for me. Thanks! Tim