[V4RB] UTF8 vs. UTF16

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 3/22/06 11:33 PM, "Jörg Pressel" <joergp at three-2-one.com> wrote:

Hi Jörg, 

> I'm still converting my app to V4RB2 ...
> In earlier versions I stored strings in UTF8 format (though V4RB1 did
> not support it directly) ­ what I've read Valentina 2 uses UTF16
> internally.
> 
> Do I have to store strings in UTF16 format to the database or does
> Valentina automatically convert all strings to UTF16?

NO.
 
Just send strings to Valentina AS IS.

REALBasic uses UTF8 encoding on default, and this is what V4RB
expect to see now.

> If it's not necessary I guess writing UTF16 strings to the db would
> be faster, because it's the internal string format ­ right?

Not right. Mainly no difference.
May be even faster if we will do this in our C++ code


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Best regards,

Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

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