odd indexed string behaviour?

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 8/27/12 6:49 PM, "George Parkinson" <george at microtherapy.ca> wrote:

Hi George,

> hi ruslan,
> that worked - thank you.
> 
> i have a lot of string data to distribute (~188 chars of ascii 34 - 127) and
> smallest possible db size is extremely important.
> does this mean i can only use utf16 for the db?
> if so, why does the option exist in the adk (and vstudio) to specify utf8 for
> storage encoding?
> will utf8 be supported or should i look for something else?

* yes only utf16 for now

* we was going have utf8 but some hard bugs have stopped us ...
 so far nobody asked very actively, so we did not push that direction.

* also  many dbs can support only utf8 or utf16 as we know.
So we did not consider this big problem ...


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Ruslan Zasukhin
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Paradigma Software, Inc

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