[V4REV] problems encountered importing // Japan?

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 6/18/05 5:46 PM, "ron barber" <rbarber at yhb.att.ne.jp> wrote:

Hi Ron,

>>> Can Val handle a doublebyte delimiter?
>> 
>> No, right now V4REV expect single byte chars from Revolution
>> 
>> 
>> Ron, I already have point, Revolution engineers have told us that now
>> external of Revolution cannot talk to it in UTF16 format. And even
>> UTF8 it
>> seems.
> 
> This is the first I have heard of this! Are you saying that Val cannot
> send unicode information to Rev? Val can store and retrieve unicode so
> what is the problem?

Problem is that Rev SDK have only char* functions.
They do not have UTF16 I/o as I know.

Mark have told me that probably Revolution 2.8 will change this

> If this is true then v4rev is useless in Japan  :
> (  so I must be misunderstanding.

May be Revolution can send to Valentina at least UTF8 via char*

We need get info from Revolution developers.


>> You confirm this also ?
> 
> I will let you know as soon as I'm able to build a valdb with unicode
> text.

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Best regards,

Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

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