Crosspaltform accented characters

Charles Yeomans yeomans at desuetude.com
Wed Nov 17 12:01:44 CST 2004


On Nov 16, 2004, at 9:25 PM, Francois Van Lerberghe wrote:

> le 17/11/04 0:20, Leo Van den Brande <leo_van_den_brande at wxs.nl> a 
> écrit :
>
>> I have not tried ConvertEncoding yet.
>
> I think it's the problem.
> You must use it :
>
> The native encoding in RB 5 is UTF8. Thus getting a string from an 
> editfield
> give you a string with an UTF8 encoding.
> If you want to write it in your database, you must convert it in 
> MacRoman if
> you are on a MacOs and in WindowsLatin1 if you are on a Windows 
> machine.
>
> Reading your field from Valentina db, you must define the encoding as
> MacRoman if you are on a MacOs and in WindowsLatin1 if you are on a 
> Windows
> machine.
>
I've found that Encodings.SystemDefault works.

Charles Yeomans



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