AW: AW: Corrupt data

[Tiemo Hollmann TB]

Hi Mark,
thanks for your ideas. I will keep track of this, when switching to other
versions.
Perhaps Ruslan can confirm, that nothing has changed between V4 and V5 on
Valentina side, so that we can concentrate on the LC side
Tiemo


> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Valentina [mailto:valentina-bounces at lists.macserve.net] Im Auftrag
von
> Mark Schonewille
> Gesendet: Montag, 28. April 2014 11:11
> An: Valentina Developers
> Betreff: Re: AW: Corrupt data
> 
> Hi Tiemo,
> 
> Currently, I have no good explanation and I have no plans to investigate.
What
> I know is the following.
> 
> The database is encoded as UTF16 and if no encoding is specified for the
> connection, I would expect data to be transferred to LiveCode as UTF16.
> However, UTF16 is an encoding that LiveCode 6.x can't display without
> conversion. Therefore, I would think that the Valentina external takes
care of
> the conversion. AFAIK the external hasn't been changed for years.
> 
> I do know that something has changed in LiveCode. Previously, LiveCode
> wouldn't understand text encoded in UTF8 and UTF16 if that text were sent
to
> the engine by an external or the shell. Before 5.x we would get garbage
and
> since 5.x we get question marks. It is possible that something changed in
the
> way LiveCode reads data from externals.
> 
> If the Valentina external returns UTF16, I couldn't explain why LiveCode
would
> be able to display that text without conversion. Perhaps the external
returns
> UTF8, which is quite similar to ASCII (equal up to ASCII 127 and slightly
> different for ASCII 128 up to and including 255, but you won't notice the
> differences if you're not using any diacritics).
> 
> I haven't actually investigated this and I can't confirm any of the above.
I'm
> just saying it is possible.
> 
> --
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> 
> Mark Schonewille
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> On 4/28/2014 09:19, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote:
> > Is there any explanation for that behavior?
> > For years the encoding didn't worked without this encoding.
> > Is it a change in LC 6.6 or a change in Valentina 5.5?
> > Tiemo
> >
> 
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