Database corrupt, bug in VarCharField with utf8?

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 6/7/09 12:27 PM, "Thomas Flemming" <tf at ttqv.com> wrote:

Hi Thomas,

> I found the problem.
> 
> The problem was always in one specific text-field.
> 
> Its a VarCharField and I'm using the database with UTF-8.
> This somehow doesn't work together.

UTF8 database -- do not use this!
It is pointed in all ReadMe I believe.

 
> In .Net Strings are always UTF16, so when I fill a VarCharField with:
> .Field("name").SetString(name)
> it results in this problems.
> 
> When I change to StorageEncoding = "UTF-16", it works with VarCharField.
> 
> Or I leave the database in StorageEncoding = "UTF-8", which I prefer, because
> it saves lots of diskspace, then I can't use the VarCharField.
> With a StringField it also works in UTF8.

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Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

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