Practical Character Sets

Domas Mituzas (Sun Microsystems)
2:00pm Wednesday, 04/16/2008
General
 Location: Ballroom G

Internet penetration in whole world opens applications and databases to many languages and scripts. Though Unicode seems to be the silver bullet, it introduces quite a few problems in whole stack – from browser to database internals, and still comes in multiple flavors.

This talk merges experience from supporting international customer base, as well as working on multilingual projects – character set conversion issues, performance impact, limitations, security concerns and more.

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Domas Mituzas

Sun Microsystems

Domas Mituzas is Wikipedia performance engineer/developer and database administrator, as well as full-time MySQL support engineer at Sun Microsystems. He is also member of Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees.

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