On Thu, 24 Feb 2011, Martin Schreiber wrote:
On Thursday 24 February 2011 08:02:20 LacaK wrote:
So also here we can see, that FieldDef.Size is expected to be number of
characters not bytes.
So IMHO logical conclusion will be say, that TFieldDef.Size for string
fields has same menaing as Field.Size, so it is number of characters
(so documentation is wrong in this case ... also fast test in Delphi
shows, that FieldDef.Size=Field.Size=number of characters)
Agreed. In MSEgui tmsestringfield.size is the maximum allowed character count
for the field. 0 = no limit. tmsebufdataset stores string data as
UnicodeString instead to use a fixed record layout.
But here you implicitly assume that you have a fixed number of bytes per
character. You should always be explicit about such things, since this is a
non-trivial assumption.
Michael.
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