[cosmo-dev] More Unicode

[Randy Letness]

Travis Vachon wrote:
> I just did a little more testing with the desktop client and noticed 
> that entering U+10000 characters and syncing with a local server or 
> hub produces unexpected behavior, so I suspect step (2) I propose 
> below will be more complicated than I expected.
>
> Randy- how does all this tie into what you said about MySQL 5 support 
> for these characters? Is there simply no way to store them?

MySQL 5 does not support characters outside the BMP, so anything outside 
that range will be truncated and appear as a truncation character.  
Derby seems to support these characters fine. See bug 
https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6817

-Randy