Umlauts and Revolution

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 5/25/09 11:11 AM, "Peter Malecki" <pemalecki at googlemail.com> wrote:

Hi Peter,

> I am struggling with umlauts using Revolution and think it is a
> problem of data exchange between Valentina and Revolution because it
> works well within Valentina.
> 
> 1.) Displaying data from a found set is no problem using UTF-8 with
> Revolution although the documentation says: it uses UTF-16 by
> default...

What exactly is UTF8?

NOTE: db files must be in UTF16 only!
    please do not try set db to be UTF8.

 
> 2.) Searching for umlauts doesn't work from Revolution, e.g. search
> for "ändern, übel, öde, büßen but also French characters like é, à or
> Spanish containig ~".
> I found no way to convert such search strings. Any idea? Thank you for help!

I think key to success here is function

    db.IOEncoding()

Also try to search this list archive back on few months.
In Feb March I remember was similar questions from Director and Rev users.


> Intel-Mac, Mac OS X 10.4, Revolution 3.5 Enterprise Edition
> 
> By the way: Valentina's performance is great! But I needed some time,
> studying the Wiki :-)

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Best regards,

Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

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