RE: [PHP-I18N] PHP 6: Mysql with iso-8859-1 chars outputting utf-8: "Could not convert binary string to Unicode string"

So can we fix the MySQL extension to just feed the UTF-16 as USC2
instead of converting to UTF-8? 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Derick Rethans [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 12:38 AM
> To: Andi Gutmans
> Cc: Georg Richter; Andrei Zmievski; Rangel Reale; PHP I18N
> Subject: RE: [PHP-I18N] PHP 6: Mysql with iso-8859-1 chars 
> outputting utf-8: "Could not convert binary string to Unicode string"
> 
> On Wed, 2 May 2007, Andi Gutmans wrote:
> 
> > Georg,
> > 
> > Do you guys support UTF-16? It'd be nice if we could just feed MySQL
> > UTF-16 and you'd do the right thing. It'd save us from having to 
> > convert to UTF-8. Sure you'd have to most probably do it for us but 
> > it's easier when the DB driver does the work.
> 
> AFAIK MySQL only supports USC2, and not UTF-16. That 
> shouldn't cause any problems though as this means MySQL would 
> not support chars out of the BMP (which it wouldn't with UTF8 either).
> 
> regards,
> Derick
> 
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