Crosspaltform accented characters

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 11/14/04 3:56 PM, "Robert Brenstein" <rjb at rz.uni-potsdam.de> wrote:

>> On 11/13/04 9:51 PM, "jda" <jda at his.com> wrote:
>> 
>>>  I don't have a Windows machine, so I can't test this, but if
>>>  Valentina isn't doing any conversion behind your back,
>> 
>> It does
> 
> This has bitten a few people even without having utf8 characters
> involved. I somehow doubt that with this automatic conversion (of
> ascii codes) cross-platform usage of stored utf8 chars is possible
> without some pre- and/or postprocessing. However, may be it would be
> possible for Ruslan to make this automatic conversion optional (as in
> having an option to turn it off) in Valenina 1.x. The problem will go
> away in 2 but 1.x will live (at least will be used) for quite a while
> yet.

This will not help.

Because I believe that UTF8 string still work not be searched and sorted
correctly. Just to store UTF8 ... What sense?

At last of end this can be done then with help of FixedBinary and VarBinary
fields.
 

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