Session
Introduction to the Japanese Charset
Yoshinori Matsunobu, Senior Consultant, MySQL AB
Track: General
Date: Thursday, April 26
Time: 1:40pm
- 2:25pm
Location: Ballroom C
When you plan to sell your software in Japan, Korea, or China, you have to care about handling a multibyte charset. In the MySQL world, if you don't care about it, sometimes column values are truncated. Sometimes result sets are empty. In the worst case, backup files become corrupted. The impacts are serious.
The purpose of this session is to explain typical issues and solutions for handling the Japanese charset. This knowledge is easily applicable to other multibyte charsets such as Korean and Chinese. Target audience is mainly non-Japanese citizens. It is not necessary that you speak or understand Japanese at all.