Russian encoded text

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 12/16/05 12:23 AM, "Trevor DeVore" <lists at mangomultimedia.com> wrote:

Hi Trevor,

> I have some text that is stored in a MySQL database that is encoded
> as Cyrillic-Win. 

> I am exporting the database to Valentina 1.x for  distribution with a
> Revolution application.  I am doing the export  from MySQL to Valentina on a
> mac. 
> 
> I fetch the records from MySQL,  translate the strings from Cyrillic-Win to
> Cyrillic-Mac and insert  them into a Valentina database.  The language of the
> fields in the  Valentina database are set to Russian.

ok
 
> When I view the text retrieved from the Valentina database on Mac OS
> X everything looks fine.  When I view the text from Valentina on
> Windows I get gibberish.  For example, character 130 in the Cyrillic
> Mac table is showing up as character 199 on Windows.
 
> I guess my question is what kind of conversion is Valentina doing in
> the background with Russian text?

Trevor, Valentina 1.x do automatic mapping of text when you move files
cross-platform, but only for Roman group (this is 14 languages).
Cyrillic is not supported her.

Valentina 2.x will do this correctly for any from 200+ encodings


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Ruslan Zasukhin
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