How do you handle YOUR encodings?

[erne]

on 8-04-2004 13:22, jda at jda at his.com wrote:

>>> of course Vale will deal with it as a bunch of bytes
>>> but, since that's what it's stored into it,
>>> she seems to have no problems with that
>> 
>> That is what I also find out. :-)
> 
> Yes. But indexed searches don't work. And I don't think
> case-insensitive searches will reliably work in other languages (like
> Greek) using the UPPER or LOWER in a method trick because Valentina
> 1.x doesn't know how to deal with UTF-8 letters that don't fall in
> the ASCII range.
> 

why should not work?
I'm sure case-insensitive search in Upper methods works fine
and see no reason why indexed search should fail
I'll check this ASAP, thoguh

>> 
>>> Also sort is acceptably correct
>>> (at least with latin languages,
>> 
>> I didn't looked at this. All fields I did ordering with don't have other
>> characters as ASCII.
> 
> UTF-8 sorts won't reliably work for non-Roman languages, either (and
> perhaps will give odd results for some accented Roman characters as
> well).
> 

yep! acceptable but *NOT* reliable :^)

> These are among the reasons that the upcoming Unicode support in
> Valentina 2.x will be so welcome.
> 

indeed so!


Cool Runnings,
Erne.

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