V4RB, Jon, project /// More explanation.

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 9/15/04 9:19 PM, "jda" <jda at his.com> wrote:

>>   Vstring(50)     -- this is 50 chars
>>>         VarChar(50)     -- this is 50 chars
>>         Text            -- unlimited
> 
>>    in this case Valentina allocate on disk bytes
> 
>>       Vstring(50)     -- 50 * 2 = 100 bytes on disk
>>       VarChar(50)     -- 4KB+ pages.
> 
> I must say I don't like this at all. I, too, prefer to think in bytes.
> 
> It seems for UTF-16 the 50 means characters, but for UTF-8 it means bytes.
> 
> It should be the same for all encodings -- having it differ between
> encodings is *very* confusing and will certainly lead to many
> misunderstandings.

THIS IS WHY we have start this talk:
    
    we also have to see this possible confusing.

    
> I suggest that 50 always means bytes, and if you want to store 50
> UTF-16 characters that you declare a VString of [100]/

:-)

I also have think about this.

On the other hand

> It seems for UTF-16 the 50 means characters, but for UTF-8 it means bytes.

All other single byte encoding except UTF8 means chars also.

So jon, everyting is visa versa:

1    UTF16   chars
2    Latin   chars
3    Western  chars
4    Russian  chars

170  ......   chars

        UTF8   bytes        EXCEPTION.

Chars are better choice :-)



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