Re: [HACKERS] 6.5 Features list

Hi!

On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> BTW, I'm going to add a new Cyrillic support to the multi-byte support
> next week (around 3/23-3/35) if this is not too late. Yes, I know we
> already have the rcode support. But it seems to have some difficulties
> with on-the-fly encoding conversion.  (Oleg, is this explanation
> correct?)

   RECODE has no difficulties - it just does not allow to choose what
encoding a client want to get. RECODE chooses client encoding by client IP
address, what is very unflexible.

> Anyway, the new Cyrillic support will not kill existing rcode support. 
> In another word, users can choose whatever Cyrillic support they like.

   I think new cyrillic support makes RECODE obsolete. Somewhere in the
future we should remove RECODE, I think.

> ---
> Tatsuo Ishii

Oleg.
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