Database in MacOS and Windows

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 8/16/04 3:31 PM, "Claudius Sailer" <Claudius at sailer-online.de> wrote:

> Hi Ruslan,
> 
> Am 16. Aug 2004 um 13:17 Uhr schrieb Ruslan Zasukhin:
> 
>> Hi Claudius,
>> 
>> Does
>> 
>>     convertencoding(EFOrt.Text,encodings.SystemDefault)
>> 
>> Produce Umlaute ?
>> 
>> I think this is the first point to check.
> 
> SystemDefault stand for MacRoman on mac and WindowsLatin1 on Windows I
> thought. So reading from EditField, which is unicode I expect that I
> get Umlaute. On Mac I get Umlaute with this code, but on Windows I
> would expect too.
> The problem I am testing at the moment is, that it could be that the
> guy is using SystemDefalut (MacRoman) on mac and is wondering why he
> get wong characters when he reads it on windows. But this, i would
> expect, has to be wrong because writing MacRoman and reading
> WindowsLatin1 is not possible (I think so).

Valentina in the MAC created db keep strings in MacWestern.
If you move db to Windows, then Valentina on the fly returns Latin1

 
> The thing is, in your point of view it should work to write and read on
> Mac and to write and read from same database on windows and to get same
> result!!



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