RB: Vserver returns ISOLatin1 and not UTF-8

[Karl Grob]

Hi Ruslan

Now it works
BTW: It is a local server in a little Net, but through a external address (just for testing).

Thanks
Karl

Am 21.08.2012 um 18:14 schrieb Ruslan Zasukhin <ruslan_zasukhin at valentina-db.com>:

> On 8/21/12 2:14 PM, "Karl Grob" <kgrob at mus.ch> wrote:
> 
> Hi Karl,
> 
>> For a long time I worked with a local DB. Everything seemed to be ok.
>> 
>> In the last 3 days I tried to put the whole thing on my little server (MacOS
>> 10.8). Result: all german "Umlaute" (öäü etc.) and many other Chars (> 127 of
>> course) gave strange results and the Listbox filled with the results crashed
>> without any exception (fluff - that was it). After a certain amount of time I
>> found that the following code did the job (at least until now):
>> 
>>       s = cur.VarCharField("fldTunedText").GetString
>>       s = s.DefineEncoding(encodings.ISOLatin1)
>>       s = s.ConvertEncoding(Encodings.UTF8)
>> 
>> The collation attributes are:
>> 
>> me.LocaleName = "German"
>> me.CollationAttribute(EVColAttribute.kAlternateHandling) =
>> EVColAttributeValue.kNonIgnorable
>> me.CollationAttribute(EVColAttribute.kCaseFirst) = EVColAttributeValue.kOFF
>> me.CollationAttribute(EVColAttribute.kCaseLevel) = EVColAttributeValue.kOFF
>> me.CollationAttribute(EVColAttribute.kFrenchCollation) =
>> EVColAttributeValue.kON
>> me.CollationAttribute(EVColAttribute.kHiraganaQuaternaryMode) =
>> EVColAttributeValue.kOFF
>> me.CollationAttribute(EVColAttribute.kNormalizationMode) =
>> EVColAttributeValue.kOFF
>> me.CollationAttribute(EVColAttribute.kStrength) =
>> EVColAttributeValue.kIdentical
>> 
>> DB ist UTF16
>> 
>> Testing shows, that this is not new: 4.9.1 has the same behavior.
> 
> Same to which version?  First try was with 5.0 beta?  Or 4.x ?
> 
> 
>> I always thought that the returned encoding should be UTF8.
>> 
>> Best regards Karl
>> 
>> PS: I tried sending to Beta, but the mail was returned.  As explained, it is
>> also 4.9.1
> 
> * So it seems you have try 5.0 beta at first, then 4.9   ok.
> 
> * And this is REALbasic, right?
> 
> * VSERVER is on MAC,   REALbasic app I guess on the same computer.
> 
> * have you made Valentina.InitClient() ?
> 
> Note that for REALbasic, if you work with VCLIENT, calls must be exactly as:
> 
> Valentina.InitC( cache, SN, ... )
> Valentina.InitClient( clientCache )
> 
> 
> Exactly this order.
> And Valentina.Init() still required even for client ...
> 
> Please check this point
> 
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
> 
> Ruslan Zasukhin
> VP Engineering and New Technology
> Paradigma Software, Inc
> 
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