[V4Rb] Encoding glitch

[Charles Yeomans]

On Dec 30, 2005, at 1:54 PM, Ruslan Zasukhin wrote:

> On 12/30/05 8:00 PM, "Charles Yeomans" <yeomans at desuetude.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm seeing a small problem with text encodings in V4Rb 2.0.5.  I'm
>> importing some records into a Valentina database.  The text is
>> MacRoman-encoded and contains curly apostrophes; these apostrophes are
>> lost when I assign the text to a VField.  In particular, if I execute
>> the following code
>>
>> c.TextField("description").Value = "Valentina’s"
>> dim foo as String = c.TextField("description").Value
>>
>> where the string "Valentina’s" is MacRoman-encoded, foo is set to
>> "Valentinas".
>>
>> If I first convert the encoding of "Valentina’s" to UTF-8, then there
>> are no problems.
>
> But all right then, Charles.
>
> You need give to V4RB the UTF8 strings.
>
> It wait for UTF8, if you give something else, why it should work ?

Because that's the way REALbasic is designed. It is the responsibility 
of the called method to handle string encodings.

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Charles Yeomans