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Mimer SQL the first DBMS in the World with Support for Unicode 4.0 Upright Database Technology AB, Uppsala, Sweden, today announced the immediate support for the new Unicode 4.0 standard published on April 18 2003 by the Unicode consortium. This makes Mimer SQL 9.2 the first DBMS in the world with built-in support for the brand new Unicode 4.0 multi-lingual character definitions. The product has also passed the Unicode 4.0 Normalization Conformance Test from the Unicode consortium. Mimer SQL 9.2 is the first DBMS in the world with support for the new Unicode 4.0 standard from the Unicode consortium. Unicode 4.0 introduces 1,226 new character assignments including currency symbols, additional Latin and Cyrillic characters and support for historic scripts like Linear B. This standard defines all alphabetical and non-alphabetical (ideographic) character sets of the world. Unicode 4.0 is implemented as a native data type in Mimer SQL 9.2, thus eliminating any conversion overhead. Mimer SQL 9.2 also introduces full support for Unicode Collation Algorithm (UCA), in which the Unicode consortium specifies how Unicode strings should be compared. “We have carefully studied the evolution of the new Unicode 4.0 standard and we’re very proud to release full support for the Unicode 4.0 standard in Mimer SQL immediately after the standard has been officially published.”, says Åke Persson, the architect of the Mimer SQL 9.2 multi-lingual module, but also member of the ISO SQL standards committee. “Our language support is very powerful and flexible while still being very easy to use” continues Åke. Mimer SQL 9.2 also supports SQL:1999 Collations, again as the first DBMS in the world. SQL:1999 Collations is a standard for multi-lingual sorting. Additional to the support for Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Russian, Spanish and many other larger languages. Mimer SQL 9.2 also includes support for the European Committee for Standardization's (CEN) European Ordering Rules (EOR). There are also pre-defined support for many minority languages such as Catalan, Sami, Sorbian and Welsh (for more information, please visit http://developer.mimer.com/features/unicode/tailorings.htm). If however the language in use is not included in the pre-defined set, the Mimer SQL multi-lingual toolbox makes it simple to add support for a specific language in the Mimer SQL database manager. One of the main characteristics of Mimer SQL is high performance. This is even further enhanced in Mimer SQL 9.2, including enhancements in e.g. network access, data warehousing support and large-object (BLOB/CLOB) access. Mimer SQL 9.2 also includes many new features and functional enhancements. A beta version of Mimer SQL 9.2 Engine for Windows is available for free download at http://developer.mimer.com/downloads. Mimer SQL Engine 9.2 for Linux and other platforms will be released soon afterwards. About Unicode Unicode provides a unique number for every character, no matter what the platform, no matter what the program, no matter what the language. Unicode is required by modern standards such as XML, Java, ECMAScript (JavaScript), LDAP, CORBA 3.0, WML, etc., and is the official way to implement ISO/IEC 10646. It is supported in many operating systems, all modern browsers, and many other products. The emergence of the Unicode Standard, and the availability of tools supporting it, are among the most significant recent global software technology trends. Incorporating Unicode into client-server or multi-tiered applications and websites offers significant cost savings over the use of legacy character sets. Unicode enables a single software product or a single website to be targeted across multiple platforms, languages and countries without re-engineering. It allows data to be transported through many different systems without corruption. The Unicode Consortium (http://www.unicode.org/) is a non-profit organization founded to develop, extend and promote use of the Unicode Standard, which specifies the representation of text in modern software products and standards. The membership of the consortium represents a broad spectrum of corporations and organizations in the computer and information processing industry |
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