Encodings on RB 5

[Cindy]

Thanks Ruslan and François. This looks like it should fix the problem but I
am having trouble with the syntax which I need to enter at runtime. I am
using:

  dim fld As vField
  dim newfld As vFixedBinary
  dim bo As vBaseObject
  bo = mDatabase.baseObject("Students")
  fld = bo.field("cid")
  newfld = bo.changeType(fld,kv_TypeFixedBinary,11)

I have also tried:

  newfld = 
mDatabase.baseObject("Students").changeType("cid",kv_TypeFixedBinary,11)

But both these options come up with parameters are incompatible. I'm not
sure where I am going wrong as these look like the right parameters
according to the manual and the auto fill in allows these options.

All the best.

Cindy
  

> on 9/11/03 3:48 PM, Cindy at alvin at ins.co.nz wrote:
> 
>> Thanks for that but I don't think it helps me when the data has previously
>> been recorded. For a lot of my clients, the data has been brought over from
>> FoxPro with all the id codes that were entered there. There are
>> approximately 24 databases all with id codes and most with the linkings
>> relying on the id codes which makes it an impossible task to try and change
>> the existing records. What I really need is something that will allow the
>> platforms to talk together. Each workstation is standalone. It is when I
>> bring the data to the server that the problem begins. If somebody knows how
>> I could translate the PC codes to the Macintosh codes, that would be great.
>> I have gone through all the encodings in the list using gettextconverter and
>> convertencodings but none of them seem to show the exact codes I need.
>> 
>> If anybody could help on this, it would be great.
> 
> I am sorry, but it is not clear to me.
> 
> DO NOT use ASCII "language" if you need cross-platform.
> Use instead "English", "German", ...
> 
>> Regards
>> 
>> Cindy
>> 
>>>> Hi All,
>>>> 
>>>> Just trying to finalise my windows version so it talks to the Mac. Behind
>>>> the scenes I have an ID code to identify each record. This code can use any
>>>> of the 256 characters except for obvious ones such as return, ", etc.
>>>> 
>>>> On my Mac I may have a code for a record such as: 00TÈX@
Kw
> 
> Aha, and you want NOT convert this code when you move files?
> 
> Then I think you can store them into FIXED BINARY or var binary fields.
> In this case Valentina will not do platform mapping.