V4RB, Jon, project

[erne]

Hi Ruslan,

on 15-09-2004 13:31, Ruslan Zasukhin at sunshine at public.kherson.ua wrote:

>>> Jon, what may be escaping you is that valentina 2 will use utf16 as
>>> its internal encoding for storing all content. However, it will do
>>> on-the-fly conversion to/from encoding you specified. So the
>>> encoding and language are just field properties so do speak.
>>> 
>>> Robert
>> 
>> We've been back and forth on this so much in the last year that
>> frankly I've lost track of the internal encoding. If this is the
>> "final answer", then the whole discussion is moot and all storage is
>> 16 bit/character. If so, there is NO problem specifying UTF-8 for
>> VString because the string length is fixed.
>> 
>> Ruslan, please clarify this.
> 
> I have not catch your point guys.
> 
> * internally engine always work in UTF16
> 
> * so even if RB give me UTF8 string, I convert it to UTF16.
> when I write to disk I convert it from UTF16 to encoding
> which you have specify in the property StorageEncoding.
> 
> * fixed size Vstring with UTF8 cause the most big problems.
> VarChar field less problems.
> Vtext no problems because no top limit.
> 

sorry, I still not catch

say I define some field as UTF8 10 chars maxlenght
I store some 10 chars string with no double bytes chars ("abcdefghij")
the Vale kernel converts all in UTF16

result: I loose half my data


I got it well?

Cool Runnings,
Erne.
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