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ASEAN Tech 7 min

Your Database Has One Collation for Southeast Asia

MySQL 8 ships 89 collations for utf8mb4 and exactly one is for a Southeast Asian language. Five of them sorted the same...

Sarah Chew

Pub. 23 Aug

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ASEAN Tech 6 min

What a Character Limit Does to Khmer

Truncation looks like the simplest thing a program does, until the same twenty-character limit hands an English reader n...

Sarah Chew

Pub. 23 Aug