Re: suitability of Base for dictionary project

Leston Buell wrote:

Hello.

I work with OOo2 beta as frontend for MySQL database. So here are my 
opinions.
> 
> Here are my questions:
> 
> 1.  The transcription for the language might need to make extensive
>     use of non-ASCII and non ISO-8859-1 characters and diacritics.
>     Will extensive use of Unicode characters pose a problem?
> 
With MySQL and OOo is this no problem. I use unicode for my Slovak files.

> 2.  Is Base suitable for a database of this size?
> 
MySQL has no problems with big files. I work with 1 to 7 MB big files 
with 25 000 records.

I think embedded OOo database is not for you. It cannot be used by two 
or more people at the same time. But if you have no problem to use MySQL 
server, you can do everything you want.

I work with MySQL server at work in our LAN where we use the same 
database on two computers. There is no problem to make in seconds  copy 
of my database and bring it home to work with it.

juraj