V4RB 1.1 & Encoding

[Charles Yeomans]

On May 7, 2004, at 2:03 PM, keatk at comcast.net wrote:

> I Am wrtting what was supposed to be a quick small DB app to help 
> process/compile some data at work.
>
> I tried the new RealDB in 5.5.2b4 but I get the IDE and built App 
> quitting without even an RB exception on the Mac (I get the report to 
> apple dialog) and troubleshooting it is taking too long...
>
> So I want to go back to valentina - but I've not used it in awhile.. 
> What to I have to watchout for encoding wise using V4RB 1.1 with RB 
> 5.5.* as it's default strings are now UTF8...
>
> So what are the pitfalls?
>
> Do I have to convert everything to ASCII type encoding including 
> VObject names and SQL command strings (not just the data to be 
> stored), before passing it to V4RB methods?
>
> Actually my data originates on Win32 so for the Data I an using 
> ISOLatin1.
>

Currently you do need to convert the encoding for text storage; I just 
use Encodings.SystemDefault and it appears to work well enough.  Since 
ASCII is a subset of UTF-8, you shouldn't have any problems with 
VBaseObject names etc. as long as you use ASCII strings.


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Charles Yeomans