Re: Strings WAS: Question About Web Site Speed

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On 13 Jul 2005, at 18:17, Ken Orr wrote:

> 
> 
> posted by: Ken Orr <orr_kenneth at yahoo.ca>
> 
> Kat wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Perhaps the problem with using Eu as a web server database isn't with that
> > per
> > se, it's more with loading a 100megabyte db in Eu (making it 400megs for
> > lack
> > of a string type) each time someone does a search can quickly run out of
> > memory on any reasonable (/ly priced) server shell. And doing gets() on a
> > brute force search of a 100 meg file (RobC said his program does that!?)
> > takes
> > too long. But what do i know, i play with a 14 gigabyte database and want
> > "goto" and string types added to Eu.
> > 
> > Kat
> > 
> 
> Why whould 8 bit strings be better?  It works ok if you are working only in
> English, but it doesn't do a good job on non-western languages.

Because there's 8bit char maps that call non-western fonts, if you limit to 
255 char displays. Which i realise is a problem with glyphs used in China, 
etc, but even then there are various "simplified" fonts. There's a few people 
on this list who are far more knowledgable about Unicode than i am, i'll leave 
this to them.

Kat

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