Dealing with a change in language/encoding

Ruslan Zasukhin sunshine at public.kherson.ua
Sat Apr 12 14:35:28 CDT 2003


on 4/12/03 1:39 PM, jda at jda at his.com wrote:

> Ruslan,
> 
> In anticipation of the addition of unicode, if I change a text
> field's encoding from "English" to "UTF8" (or Japanese, for that
> matter) in the baseobject, will Valentina automatically treat older
> databases correctly (will it consider the text in that field to be
> unicode)? Or must I export/import the data into a new database for
> Valentina to treat the text as being in the new encoding?

Hi Jon,

This operation -- "change of Language" -- is operation that modify db
structure. 

Therefore, you need Upgrade your databases to __new__ version of
    
    Db.SchemaVersion

You do not need import/export.

You need just do correct steps with SchemaVersion.

-- 
Best regards,
Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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