[V4MD] Greek character set problem Valentina-Director & picture insert problem

[Georgiu Konstantinos]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: valentina-studio-bounces at lists.macserve.net [mailto:valentina-
> studio-bounces at lists.macserve.net] On Behalf Of Ruslan Zasukhin
> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 5:40 PM
> To: valentina-studio at lists.macserve.net; valentina at lists.macserve.net
> Subject: Re: [V4MD] Greek character set problem Valentina-Director &
> picture insert problem
> 
> On 3/5/07 1:13 PM, "Georgiu Konstantinos" <georgiu at cti.gr> wrote:
> 
> Hi Georgiu,
> 
> Actually V4MD questions better send to Valentina list.
> 

Ok I'll do that


> > Hello again,
> >
> > Now i am in front of another problem. I want to have both Greek and
> English in
> > my director application.
> 
> Greek is from Roman group, right?
> So it should work.
> 
> > Unfortunately director doesn't use unicode encoding.
> > So do I have to make the conversion myself?
> 
> > When I retrieve something from tha database so I have to convert it
with
> my
> > own function utfToDirectorString? Is it a way to insert into
valentina
> db in
> > non-utf character encoding (like iso8859-7 which is for greek)?
> 
> Why you think you need convert from Unicode??
> 
>     Director works in Latin-1.
>         V4MD get Latin-1 strings from Director
>             V4MD convert strings to UTF16 and put them on disk into
db.
> 
> 

And, why inserting into string field causes bad conversion and inserting
into a text field works ok. I mean that when you insert from studio a
string in greek it is utf. So retrieving it in director causes it to not
appear correctly. On the other hand if I insert into a text field from a
text file (which is in ansi format) then in director will appear
correctly.
Will indexing work in any case?

> > When I insert text values from Valentina studio
> > it is inserted in unicode , but if i insert it from director it is
> inserted as
> > iso8859-7 and as a result when i retrieve it back it appears
correctly.
> So how
> > do I insert my data in valentina in non-unicode character set?
> 
> Do not use Valentina Studio to prepare Director db.
> Try to use Director itself.
> 

But I have large amount of data (thousands of records) and I have to use
some kind of automation to import them. So either I have to write some
kind of lingo script to import the data or use another ADK to do the
same job.

Now that I think of it more the lingo approach will be better.

> > And a bonus question :-)
> >
> > When i insert some images with the picture data type, some of them
can't
> be
> > inserted causing valentina studio to crash. They are jpg. More
strangely
> if I
> > rotate the image then it is possible to insert it. I'll try to
attach
> such an
> > image. I'll try to programmatically insert them to see if it is a
prob
> of
> > studio
> 
> Please report this into Mantis, and attach there such picture.
> 
> --
> Best regards,
> 
> Ruslan Zasukhin
> VP Engineering and New Technology
> Paradigma Software, Inc
> 
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