VChar vs VText

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 11/26/05 5:35 AM, "Ed Kleban" <Ed at Kleban.com> wrote:

> 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?

Yes for TF16

Actually in v2 for UTF8 the best size of VarChar will be 2044.


> Also, when I get a string into a RB variable with GetString, is there a way
> to retrive a UTF-8 string?

You get it as UTF8 now right now !!!

REALbasic work with UTF8 on default.

> 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.

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