Re: [tlug] [OT]: PHP/MySQL: Japanese input/ouput prgramming advicedocs sought

[Keith Watanabe <keith.y.watanabe@example.com>]

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> Is this comment specifically for Postgress? I always tought it was 
> more efficient to get a DB to sort results than doing it 
> programmatically. 

I think is more of a general statement, although I've heard varying 
stories from both parties.  Of course, the key word was "lots" in the 
previous statement where probably on a smaller scale, the efficiency 
issue might be considered neglible.  

Regardless, I don't know if it's available for PHP, but you might want 
to see if it has a collation module somewhere.  I heard that PHP is 
capable of supporting plugin type of situations with say Java and 
perhaps other languages (most likely C, etc.).  Java has a pretty good 
collation module that handles UTF so you might want to look into this to 
handle sorting Unicode situations.  If you do a search for 
internationalization (especially for things like race encoding), you'll 
find that Java module.  It's offered through IBM from what I remember.