[development] ALL Contrib maintainers: UTF-8 update

[andrew morton]

Ignore me, I just finally scrolled down to the bottom of the handbook
page you linked to :p

On 1/20/06, andrew morton <drewish at katherinehouse.com> wrote:
> First off, thanks for the head up. I'd just been looking at that update.
>
> I want to make sure I'm clear on this. Update 169 got the core tables
> but we still need up update our tables. If you're using the .install
> files, I'm assuming that can be something as simple as:
> function review_update_2() {
>   return _system_update_utf8(array('review'));
> }
>
> Does that sound right?
>
> andrew
>
> On 1/20/06, Steven Wittens <steven at acko.net> wrote:
> > Heads up,
> >
> > I committed my UTF-8 patch (http://drupal.org/node/40515). Looks big,
> > but it really isn't /that/ scary. (*)
> >
> > But because of this, we need to apply an upgrade to all tables. So, if
> > you have a contrib module with tables, please go to:
> >
> > http://drupal.org/node/22218#utf8_sql
> > ( http://drupal1.osuosl.org/node/22218#utf8_sql )
> >
> > Don't worry, it's just a quick copy/paste operation, really. Takes only
> > 5 minutes. Aren't you glad drumm made that awesome update system? ;)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Steven Wittens
> >
> > (*) And it fixes the last of the UTF-8 issues: database field lengths
> > are now guaranteed to be expressed in characters, not bytes. SQL
> > operations like substring, lower, etc are guaranteed to work.
> > Alphabetical ordering can sort accented letters properly. And much more.
> >
> >
>