[V4MD] Unicode in 2.0

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

on 3/3/04 11:58 AM, Martin Kloss at martin.kloss at gmx.de wrote:

Hi Martin,

> Valentina will support Unicode in the upcoming version 2.0,
> as I have understood from past announcements.

Yes.

> This is great, but I am wondering about how to actually
> get Unicode text stored in a string, varchar or text field
> into Director via V4MD and vice versa. The problem is that
> Director does not support Unicode, not even in MX 2004.

In V4MD we will convert to system default code page.

Director give us e.g. Latin1 we convert it to UTF16 inside of engine.


> So will the text be mapped to an ASCII map, i.e. ISO 8859-15,
> or will there be a function or parameter in the GetField()/SetField()
> functions or even a global property, like the date format to
> determine the ISO map to map the text to?

Good questions for new BETA list :-)

For now we use default.
We have not yet polished this issues.
Let's think all together later.

> Director does not know how to handle Unicode text, neither
> in text members nor in variables, so a database would not
> be compatible with Director if the text was stored in Unicode.

Martin, we do conversions.

> Have you though about this? Any ideas, plans or suggestions?

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Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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