Crosspaltform accented characters

[Leo Van den Brande]

Hi all,

Developing on RB 5.2.4 for Mac OSX and 9, and Windows, I experience
the following problem.

After transfer of the Valentina database between paltforms,  accented
characters are removed except for one nonsensical character if stored
on Mac OS and transferred to Windows. If stored on Windows and
transferred to Mac OS.the text is truncated at the first occurrence of
an accented character.

I store as is and define UTF8 on retrieval.

Ruslan Zasukhin advised me to change language from ASCII to German. He
also asked me to put the question on the list. So, I overcome my
shyness as non-professional and post this.

Taking the simple approach, I changed definitions, recompiled for Mac
OS X and Windows. Next, stored text from a previous database on the
Mac. On the Mac, I got good retrieval as expected. However, under
Windows, the same problem occurred..
The other way around: storage under Windows, moving the database to
the Mac and retrieve, yielded the same problem as before.

QUESTION: should I construct a conversion routine, using the two
definitions (ASCII and German) and copy all contents of the database
between them or is there another way that any of you knows?

Any suggestion will be appreciated!

Leo Van den Brande

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