Character oe mac <-> win

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 9/14/06 3:37 AM, "Pierre Rossel" <prossel2 at myrealbox.com> wrote:

>> * May be you need specify Vdatabase.IOEncoding property
> 
> Yes, that was the solution.
> 
> On my Windows, put db.IOEncoding is returning "ISO-8859-1". However the "oe"
> character is not present in this character set.
> The character set with "oe" is "Windows-1252" (have a look here, it is char
> 0x0C: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252 )
> 
> So, to fix the whole thing I had to change the IOEncoding property to
> "Windows-1252".
> 
> I wonder if this could be the default encoding on Windows as it is the same
> set as "ISO-8859-1", plus a few ones.

It is danger depend on default OS settings.
 
You have Valentina + ICU which contains all encodings inside.
So you are safe set for your db any encoding from 270
And send this db to any other computer.
ICU still will correctly show it.


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Ruslan Zasukhin
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Paradigma Software, Inc

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