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Re: Ruby on rails' SQLite database with Chinese characters



"Henry" <liu_henry5@hotmail.com> writes:

> I installed a Debian Lenny AMD 64. I am planning to use Ruby in Rails
> to build some Chinese web pages. Now the Chinese input and output on
> Debian works just fine. I know in Ruby on Rails, I can add Chinese
> characters without problem.

> My question here is that whether the sqlite support Chinese
> characters.

Yes, by supporting UTF-8/16.

> If it does, do I need to use different data type other than string or
> text?

No, just set the character encoding (e.g., UTF-8) for your database,
then feed the database with that encoding.

> Any document out there? I searched and could not find any.

http://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_encoding

> Thanks in advance.
>
> Henry 


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