Internally, Drizzle will use UTF-8 everywhere and _only_ UTF-8. This is simply because UTF-8 is the choice of encoding within the Drizzle community at the moment. To me, this decision makes sense since UTF-8 is popular in the areas that Drizzle is targetting (Web and the Cloud). Limiting to UTF-8 also means that the Drizzle codebase would become cleaner, thus easier to maintain. However, there are arguments against it in the community so this could change in the future.
So, what does this mean to those that are outside regions that use latin characters, specifically East Asia? Would this cause an uproar?
Few months ago, Brian Aker had asked me about this and after a brief discussion with Jay Pipes couple of days ago, I figured I should blog about this so I can keep it as a note for myself and hopefully gain feedbacks from those that stumbles across this entry. Here are my thoughts based on my knowledge on the Japanese web industry:
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Drizzle Article in JapaneseFrom: torum.net
Post Date: 2008-09-04 07:20:41
Yesterday, an article I wrote for a fairly large Japanese IT news portal called @IT was made public and I figured I should blog about it in English, so that I can tell my fellow Drizzlers about it. Here is the link to the article even though it is in Nihongo
http://www.atmarkit.co.jp/fdb/rensai/drzl_pj/drzl01.html
This three page multi-byte article starts by covering the concept of how the project was launched by Brian Aker, and the overall concept and philosophy of Drizzle. I then...
more Perl, Binary and MemcachedFrom: torum.net
Post Date: 2008-08-15 01:39:06
The last few days I’ve been working on updating the binary protocol test in the latest memcached development branch to comply with the latest binary protocol specification . Prior to this update, the test client was sending an invalid request to the server, which as a consequence made the test hang and never finish.
In brief, this is the big difference:
Previously, CAS (compare and swap) value was treated as part of the extra header that is appended/serialized behind the requ...
more Mac OS X, Ubuntu and DrizzleFrom: torum.net
Post Date: 2008-07-29 20:00:42
So admittedly, Mac OS X is currently not the most friendly platform to work with Drizzle, mostly due to library issues.
OS X has several weird hacks in it due to licensing issues (libreadline comes into mind first). Sure, MacPorts, Darwin Ports and etc could get around this problem but should this be necessary? Personally I dislike resorting to these solutions. Fortunately I’ve been doing all my Drizzle work with Ubuntu on a dedicated server so I’ve yet to come across any ...
more Drizzle, out in the openFrom: torum.net
Post Date: 2008-07-23 00:03:07
So I’ve been fortunate enough to participate in developing Drizzle, which is a microkernel fork of MySQL that you can read more about on Brian Aker’s blog post .
In brief we are getting rid of components that we find unnecessary in MySQL by default, and instead making them optional by refactoring the server to be modular, aka microkernel. Another words, we are trying to develop a lean, fast, simple and extensible RDBMS that would fit well in mid and large scale web applications.
How? w...
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