[V4RB] accents mac->win

[Sims, John]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: valentina-bounces at lists.macserve.net 
> [mailto:valentina-bounces at lists.macserve.net] On Behalf Of 
> Ruslan Zasukhin
> Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 12:43 PM
> To: valentina at lists.macserve.net
> Subject: [V4RB] accents mac->win
> 
> 
> Hi REALbasic experts.
> 
> I need some help from you.
> 
> I have made on mac in viSQL db with table that have
>     one VarChar and one text fields.
> 
> Then I did 
> 
>     insert into ttt (f1, f2) VALUES( 'éóá', 'éóá' )
> 
> Now select * from ttt show correct accent chars on mac.
> 
> I have move db to windows, open it in viSQL and see SQUARS.
> If I do EXPORT from viSQL into text file, then TextEdit show 
> me correct accent charcs.
> 
> So this is problem of viSQL WIN that it not display chars correctly.
> 
> Now question: 
>     what special must be done on RB win + viSQL to force it 
> show chars ?
>     fonts? Else ?
> 
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
> 
> Ruslan Zasukhin
> VP Engineering and New Technology
> Paradigma Software, Inc
> 
> Valentina - Joining Worlds of Information http://www.paradigmasoft.com
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Hi Ruslan,

I am not an encoding expert but my first thought since it works fine on Mac and not Windows would be something to do with Endianess???  Macs use "big", Windows uses "little".  I've seen people on the NUG have problems similar to this before. 

Good Luck,

-John