Inserting UTF-16 values in V4RB2

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 7/10/06 11:35 AM, "Dave Addey" <listmail1 at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I¹ve just found that I can¹t use UTF-16 strings with V4RB 2.3.  I did the
> following:
> 
> inDatabase.Table("TestTable").VarCharField("TestVarChar").Value =
> insertString
> 
> ...where insertString.Encoding is UTF-16. REALbasic can handle this string
> fine.  When I check the value of VarCharField, it is not set to the string I
> used ­ it seems to be blank, or maybe full of non-printable characters.
> 
> If I convert the encoding to UTF-8 first, then it works fine.
> 
> Is this a known issue?  If V4RB can't cope with UTF-16 strings, shouldn't
> Valentina convert the text to UTF-8 before storing it?  Do I always have to
> check that my strings are UTF-8?

For now you need use UTF8..


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Ruslan Zasukhin
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