Re: [GWhere-discussion] character set

[navara]

> Hi Thomas and everybody,
Hi Zero ;)

> > I recommend rather put option "charset" inside catalog, so I might choose 
> > my iso-8859-2 to be used. Default might be utf8 of course.
> If I well understand you would like the choose the used string encoding to 
> build your catalogs??

Yes. In option there will be system default, but I will be able to choose other.


> > To slowness - because I think about big catalogs (200CDs and more - 
> > university internet connection explains everything), I think, that gwhere 
> > can use some binary file as one of its file formats (so I can change it in 
> > preferencies), that will be optimized for big files. Another option is to 
> > use some database (i prefer mysql) as its backend, so speed of all 
> > operations will be very fast (as this database is speed optimized). This 
> > has another advantage, that I can store it on server and access my files 
> > from any computer on the Net.
> I'm working since more one years. I'm defining a new catalog file format with 
> binary format and optimized for too big catalogs. The connection
> with some database as MySQL or others is planned. And it will coming soon 
> after GWhere 0.2.0...

Nice ;)

Where might I see it ? Maybe you can use some database storage (db4 ?) and just 
implement more modules to access these data ?


Thomas

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