Re: [GWhere-discussion] character set

[Zero - GWhere]

Hi Thomas and list,


> > > 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.
It is right.


> > > 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 ?
The GWhere 0.2.x versions will add the plugin support for catalog
storage. In this way anybody will abble to write a plugin with any
database storage.


Best regards,

Zero
Maintainer,

GWhere - Another way to manage your catalogs!!
http://www.gwhere.org