UTF8 storage Vstring

Ruslan Zasukhin sunshine at public.kherson.ua
Wed Sep 15 19:34:31 CDT 2004


On 9/15/04 4:47 PM, "Erik Mueller-Harder"
<valentina-list at vermontsoftworks.com> wrote:

> I can see that the potential of using multi-byte characters in String
> fields defined as UTF8 storage could be problematic.  I tend to define
> very few String fields, though -- pretty much only for situations like
> product codes and so forth, where I can be certain of an exact length.
> These are situations where multi-byte characters are unlikely to be
> needed.  I'm supposing that my best plan is probably keep these defined
> as UTF8, but to define the language as ASCII and edit input to ensure
> compliance.

And again you are 100% correct Erik!  :-)


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