Hi!
On 17/01/07, Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com> wrote:
[...] While it is possible as of my testing
last year to store UTF-16 data in UCS-2 fields by communicating with the
server using invalid pseudo-UTF-8 which encodes the UTF-16 surrogate
pair halves as separate UTF-8 characters, this would be very fragile and
likely to lead to bugs, interoperability problems, and data corruption.)
[...]
I believe this CESU-8 thing has been discussed before a bit (see
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2005-October/019766.html and
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2005-October/019611.html),
including filing a MySQL bug (see
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=14052, no
comments since, it seems).
-- [[cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec]]