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[jsr338-experts] Re: Nationalized character data

From: Steve Ebersole <steve.ebersole_at_redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2012 13:25:59 -0500

No one else is interested in unifying this? As-is this is yet another
mapping annotation that will need to be provider specific. Or do other
providers not support nationalized datatypes?

On Tue 22 May 2012 04:07:48 PM CDT, Steve Ebersole wrote:
> I apologize if I missed reference to this in previous 2.1 discussions.
>
> Has there been discussion about support for nationalized character
> data (nvarchar, nchar, nclob) mappings in 2.1? These are new types
> standardized in JDBC 4. Handling them differently is important in both:
> (1) read and write operations
> (2) DDL exporting
>
> I'd love to see a @Nationalized annotation that can be applied to
> properties that correspond to character data.