This is probably for Georg Richter (and/or @Wlad). I have a few qeustion!

1)

https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/mariadb-native-client/trunk/revision/80

"Fix for CONC-44: LOAD DATA INFILE can't open utf16le encoded filenames"

But we we can stil not specify UTF16LE as the CHARSET, I think?

Say I have a file named "ÄÜÑБГД.csv".  (both Western special characters and cyrillic characters in the file name). This file I  will be able to read now (using revision 80), right?

But if file content is this single line (one row, two columns)

ÄÜÑ,БГД

and if it is encoded as 'Windows Unicode'/utf16le I still will need to recode the file to utf8 before executing it with LOAD DATA (as UTF16LE still cannot be specified for CHARSET in LOAD DATA), right?

Please confirm that I understand this!

2)

https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/mariadb-native-client/trunk/revision/32

"Added support for embedded (sqlite)".

This happened by beginning of this year but I just noticed now.

Now what can we actually do with SQLite and the MariaDB C-API and what we the purpose of this revision? Is it to make it easier to write client applications using SQLite for internal storage? Or to make the C client code 'a generic API' for connecting to both MySQL (of all flavors) and SQLite? Is the the code/files that that were added different from offical SQLite downloads from http://www.sqlite.org/? I am not able to find any documentation anywhere.  Also not a blog or whatever either. There must be some reason to add sqlite3 code?!

3) 

This seems to be the latest revision:

https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/mariadb-native-client/trunk/revision/81

"Added dyamic column api; Added character set conversion"

('dyamic' is misspelled BTW!)

Won't we need some documentation here? The claim that MariaDB's connector "has exactly the same API as the MySQL Connector/C for MySQL 5.5" (https://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-client-library-for-c/) cannot be true now as it adds funtionalities for managing MariaDB ' dymamic column waht oracle's API has not? The API from Oracle's library is now a *subset* or MariaDB API (or MariaDB's is a *superset* or Oracle). So much I can figure out, but should I need to code with it I would need description of functions' syntax, expected results and error listings.

Also I am not able to figure out what the "character set conversion" referred to is doing and why it was added. 

4)

Why does the changelog here https://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-client-library-for-c-100-changelog/ stop at revision 77?

-- Peter Laursen

-- Webyog