VChar vs VText

[Ed Kleban]

I was using 504 because I was thinking about UTF-8 strings.  But UTF-8
doesn't work well in V4RB v2.0 correct?  So should I change to using 1022?

Also, when I get a string into a RB variable with GetString, is there a way
to retrive a UTF-8 string? Is it slower if I do rather than retrieveing
UTF-16 strings?  

Either way, I'm sure glad I'm doing my searches on string hashes rather than
actual strings.




On 11/25/05 4:41 PM, "Ruslan Zasukhin" <sunshine at public.kherson.ua> wrote:

> On 11/26/05 12:33 AM, "jda" <jda at his.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Frank,
>> 
>>> You do not  set the segment size with a VarChar, instead it is the
>>> maximum size.
>> 
>> Ah, of course. Should have remembered that...
>> 
>>>  1022 is the minimum value you should use, at least for double byte
>>> encodings like UTF-16 which is the default.
>> 
>> Wasn't that for V1? I thought it changed in V2 to something over 5000.
>> Ruslan?
> 
> Best VarChar size in v2 for UTF16 strings is 1022
> 
>         1022 * 2 = 2044
> 
> 2 max big string on page 2044 * 2 = 4088.
> 
> So we get 4Kb page
>