VStudio 3.02 convert_1_2 lost data

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 9/6/07 3:46 PM, "robert at formworkdesign.com" <robert at formworkdesign.com>
wrote:

Hi Robert,
 
> I've been working for a couple of weeks getting my aging Valentina code and
> Valentina data able to work with current versions of Valentina.
> 
> I just discovered that the Convert_1_2 operation looses data the was good in
> my vserver 2.01 database file.
> 
> The field is type Text, originally identified as ASCII. After conversion it is
> encoded as UTF-16.

Well, 2.x will always use UTF16 for string fields.
 
> The field contains a series of CStrings. This worked properly in the 2.01
> version of vserver.

Do you mean Vserver 2.0.1 ?

I.e. 2.x family product?
2.0.1 this is quite old build about 2 years ago?

 
> After conversion, the only data that remains are the characters preceeding the
> first null character.
> 
> Have I misused the Text field? Shouldn't it be able to hold a chr(0)
> character?

Of course TEXT fields cannot contains chr(0)

Only BLOB 


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Best regards,

Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

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