[V4RB] Is current Valentina version ready for RB 5.5

[Stan Busk]

Hi,

I have been all night pinpointing better the problem and SORRY, I found 
out Valentina is not the culprit. The problem comes from encoding and 
decoding string from/to UTF-8 and system default. The code snippets 
below were working fine for me so far (up to RB5.2.4) but have suddenly 
stopped on the Windows platform with RB5.5. I am not sure what's 
happening but it is like there is no encodings available so returned 
string is always empty.

   Dim conv As TextConverter
   conv = GetTextConverter(Encodings.UTF8, Encodings.SystemDefault)
   return conv.Convert(inText)

The reverse code doesn't work either:

   Dim conv As TextConverter
   conv = GetTextConverter(Encodings.SystemDefault, Encodings.UTF8)
   return conv.Convert(inText)

Is there something I have to change in order to get those functions 
work again on Windows? I don't want to store UTF-8 directly to the 
database until it is fully supported.

TIA,
~/Stan


> Stan,
>> viSQL is great and I have used it several times but I don't think it
>> has been compiled with RB5.5
>
> I know these things can be maddening so I took few moments to test it 
> for
> you on my side...
>
> I just downloaded the viSQL source, compiled it for Win32 on a Mac OS 
> X.3.2.
> I moved it over and launched in on my Windows XP Pro PC with no 
> problems. I
> certainly didn't test it exhaustively, but I did run a dozen or so 
> simple
> queries on an existing 4MB database without any noticeable problems.
>
> Perhaps you could try the same thing and see what you get querying 
> your data
> files.
>
> Best,
> Keith DeLong
>
>
>
>> My application is working as usual on Mac OS X and Classic but not at
>> all on Windows XP. Very simple queries fully working on Mac OS X and
>> Classic simply return NIL. I have tried with 5 different databases and
>> 2 fresh made ones. Including the database creation that includes the
>> creation of some records fail. If I compile the application with
>> RB5.2.4 it works fine. It is just failing with RB5.5 on windows.
>> Needless to say the code is unchanged.
>>
>> There is something wrong with Valentina with RB Windows for sure.
>
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