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| -This directory contains source code for the SQLite "ICU" extension, an
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| -integration of the "International Components for Unicode" library with
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| -SQLite. Documentation follows.
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| - 1. Features
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| - 1.1 SQL Scalars upper() and lower()
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| - 1.2 Unicode Aware LIKE Operator
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| - 1.3 ICU Collation Sequences
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| - 1.4 SQL REGEXP Operator
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| - 2. Compilation and Usage
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| - 3. Bugs, Problems and Security Issues
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| - 3.1 The "case_sensitive_like" Pragma
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| - 3.2 The SQLITE_MAX_LIKE_PATTERN_LENGTH Macro
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| - 3.3 Collation Sequence Security Issue
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| -1. FEATURES
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| - 1.1 SQL Scalars upper() and lower()
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| -
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| - SQLite's built-in implementations of these two functions only
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| - provide case mapping for the 26 letters used in the English
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| - language. The ICU based functions provided by this extension
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| - provide case mapping, where defined, for the full range of
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| - unicode characters.
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| -
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| - ICU provides two types of case mapping, "general" case mapping and
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| - "language specific". Refer to ICU documentation for the differences
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| - between the two. Specifically:
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| - http://www.icu-project.org/userguide/caseMappings.html
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| - http://www.icu-project.org/userguide/posix.html#case_mappings
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| -
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| - To utilise "general" case mapping, the upper() or lower() scalar
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| - functions are invoked with one argument:
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| - upper('ABC') -> 'abc'
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| - lower('abc') -> 'ABC'
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| - To access ICU "language specific" case mapping, upper() or lower()
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| - should be invoked with two arguments. The second argument is the name
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| - of the locale to use. Passing an empty string ("") or SQL NULL value
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| - as the second argument is the same as invoking the 1 argument version
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| - of upper() or lower():
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| - lower('I', 'en_us') -> 'i'
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| - lower('I', 'tr_tr') -> 'ı' (small dotless i)
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| - 1.2 Unicode Aware LIKE Operator
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| - Similarly to the upper() and lower() functions, the built-in SQLite LIKE
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| - operator understands case equivalence for the 26 letters of the English
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| - language alphabet. The implementation of LIKE included in this
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| - extension uses the ICU function u_foldCase() to provide case
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| - independent comparisons for the full range of unicode characters.
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| -
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| - The U_FOLD_CASE_DEFAULT flag is passed to u_foldCase(), meaning the
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| - dotless 'I' character used in the Turkish language is considered
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| - to be in the same equivalence class as the dotted 'I' character
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| - used by many languages (including English).
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| - 1.3 ICU Collation Sequences
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| - A special SQL scalar function, icu_load_collation() is provided that
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| - may be used to register ICU collation sequences with SQLite. It
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| - is always called with exactly two arguments, the ICU locale
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| - identifying the collation sequence to ICU, and the name of the
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| - SQLite collation sequence to create. For example, to create an
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| - SQLite collation sequence named "turkish" using Turkish language
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| - sorting rules, the SQL statement:
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| - SELECT icu_load_collation('tr_TR', 'turkish');
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| - Or, for Australian English:
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| - SELECT icu_load_collation('en_AU', 'australian');
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| - The identifiers "turkish" and "australian" may then be used
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| - as collation sequence identifiers in SQL statements:
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| - CREATE TABLE aust_turkish_penpals(
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| - australian_penpal_name TEXT COLLATE australian,
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| - turkish_penpal_name TEXT COLLATE turkish
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| - );
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| - 1.4 SQL REGEXP Operator
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| - This extension provides an implementation of the SQL binary
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| - comparision operator "REGEXP", based on the regular expression functions
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| - provided by the ICU library. The syntax of the operator is as described
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| - <string> REGEXP <re-pattern>
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| - This extension uses the ICU defaults for regular expression matching
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| - behaviour. Specifically, this means that:
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| - * Matching is case-sensitive,
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| - * Regular expression comments are not allowed within patterns, and
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| - * The '^' and '$' characters match the beginning and end of the
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| - <string> argument, not the beginning and end of lines within
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| - the <string> argument.
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| - Even more specifically, the value passed to the "flags" parameter
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| - of ICU C function uregex_open() is 0.
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| -2 COMPILATION AND USAGE
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| - The easiest way to compile and use the ICU extension is to build
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| - and use it as a dynamically loadable SQLite extension. To do this
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| - using gcc on *nix:
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| - gcc -shared icu.c `icu-config --ldflags` -o libSqliteIcu.so
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| -
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| - You may need to add "-I" flags so that gcc can find sqlite3ext.h
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| - and sqlite3.h. The resulting shared lib, libSqliteIcu.so, may be
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| - loaded into sqlite in the same way as any other dynamically loadable
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| - extension.
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| -3 BUGS, PROBLEMS AND SECURITY ISSUES
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| - 3.1 The "case_sensitive_like" Pragma
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| - This extension does not work well with the "case_sensitive_like"
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| - pragma. If this pragma is used before the ICU extension is loaded,
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| - then the pragma has no effect. If the pragma is used after the ICU
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| - extension is loaded, then SQLite ignores the ICU implementation and
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| - always uses the built-in LIKE operator.
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| - The ICU extension LIKE operator is always case insensitive.
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| - 3.2 The SQLITE_MAX_LIKE_PATTERN_LENGTH Macro
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| - Passing very long patterns to the built-in SQLite LIKE operator can
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| - cause a stack overflow. To curb this problem, SQLite defines the
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| - SQLITE_MAX_LIKE_PATTERN_LENGTH macro as the maximum length of a
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| - pattern in bytes (irrespective of encoding). The default value is
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| - defined in internal header file "limits.h".
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| - The ICU extension LIKE implementation suffers from the same
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| - problem and uses the same solution. However, since the ICU extension
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| - code does not include the SQLite file "limits.h", modifying
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| - the default value therein does not affect the ICU extension.
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| - The default value of SQLITE_MAX_LIKE_PATTERN_LENGTH used by
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| - the ICU extension LIKE operator is 50000, defined in source
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| - file "icu.c".
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| - 3.3 Collation Sequence Security Issue
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| - Internally, SQLite assumes that indices stored in database files
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| - are sorted according to the collation sequence indicated by the
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| - SQL schema. Changing the definition of a collation sequence after
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| - an index has been built is therefore equivalent to database
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| - corruption. The SQLite library is not very well tested under
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| - these conditions, and may contain potential buffer overruns
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| - or other programming errors that could be exploited by a malicious
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| - programmer.
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| - If the ICU extension is used in an environment where potentially
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| - malicious users may execute arbitrary SQL (i.e. gears), they
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| - should be prevented from invoking the icu_load_collation() function,
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| - possibly using the authorisation callback.
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