encoding in Valentina and RealBasic 5.2 (OS X)

[Carlo Rubini]

At 4:11 AM -0500 1.8.03, valentina-request at lists.macserve.net wrote:
>From: Ruslan Zasukhin <sunshine at public.kherson.ua>
>
>on 7/31/03 19:23, Carlo Rubini at osb at bttb.net.bd wrote:
>
>>  Hello,
>>  it's a few days I'm trying to add records to a valentina db and to 
>>query them.
>>  Everything works fine untill the records dont contain any accented 
>>character.
>>  In fact, adding a record with accented characters in it, I'm not 
>>able to query
>>  it.
>
>Hi Carlo,
>
>I wonder if you did not forget set up correct language for your string
>fields in tables?
>
>As I understand you use non English language.

Hi Ruslan,

my Mac's system language is English(USA); anyway,

1. if that was the reason dont you think I should have problems also in OS 9.2?

2. if I encode my accented word as 'garbage', than I can find it also 
in OS X; ex:
word: élitist; if I add this record as ˆ©litist 
(root+copyright+litist) then it is found! Even in the db it is 
entered as 'garbage', but querying élitist Valentina finds it. 
Strange but true. So, I'm inclined to think that actually the real 
problem is centered on 'encoding'.

I tried also to change <words> from VVarchar to Vstring, but it had no effect.

thanks for answering
-- 
Carlo