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On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 10:21:57AM +0000, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
> So the transparency is achieved by having two representations (as ever)
>
> byte - cultural info from native EBCDIC
> utf8 - transform and then hold as UTF-8 Unicode - cultural info from
> Unicode db.
This would make ord() non-transparent wrt the translation. My
proposal is
byte - cultural info from native locale
utf8 - transform and then hold as UTF-8 locale-permuted Unicode -
cultural info in 0..255 range from the native locale,
cultural info in 256..7FFFFFFF range as in Unicode db,
cultural info in 80000000..FFFFFFFF range as in Unicode db
shifted by 80000000.
[the third range is used to use chars from latin1 which are not in
the locale's repertoire - IIUYC, no need for EBCDIC].
Ilya