> It's because unicode doesn't store all chars in 2 or 3 or more bytes. > Only "national" chars are stored on more bytes. Standard US-ASCII (and > some others) are store on 1 byte to keep backward compatibility.
I wrote the same. And, if you look at text, ~99% of character there are digits, english letters and signs like /, \ ets... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Firebird-net-provider mailing list Firebird-net-provider@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-net-provider