Re: [Firebird-net-provider] Character set problem between with Firebird & .NET provider

2010-01-10 Thread Louis van Alphen
- From: Mercea Paul [mailto:paul.mer...@almexa.ro] Sent: 10 January 2010 12:15 PM To: lo...@nucleo.co.za; 'For users and developers of the Firebird .NET providers' Subject: RE: [Firebird-net-provider] Character set problem between with Firebird & .NET provider Hi Louis >

Re: [Firebird-net-provider] Character set problem between with Firebird & .NET provider

2010-01-10 Thread Mercea Paul
Hi Louis > -Original Message- > From: Louis van Alphen [mailto:lo...@nucleo.co.za] > Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 14:59 > To: firebird-net-provider@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Firebird-net-provider] Character set problem between with > Firebird & .NET

Re: [Firebird-net-provider] Character set problem between with Firebird & .NET provider

2010-01-08 Thread Daniel Rail
Hi, At January-08-10, 3:56 AM, André Knappstein, Controlling wrote: > I don't know. > If I remember correctly I have read that unicode takes an extra byte > per character and I did not want to hit any technical limit (max. > lenghth of index key and such...) UTF-8 can take between 1 and 4 bytes

Re: [Firebird-net-provider] Character set problem between with Firebird & .NET provider

2010-01-08 Thread Louis van Alphen
is van Alphen [mailto:lo...@nucleo.co.za] Sent: 08 January 2010 12:00 PM To: 'firebird-net-provider@lists.sourceforge.net' Subject: RE: [Firebird-net-provider] Character set problem between with Firebird & .NET provider I tried WIN1252 but it still does not work. I did the following ste

Re: [Firebird-net-provider] Character set problem between with Firebird & .NET provider

2010-01-08 Thread Louis van Alphen
error when accessing certain data -Original Message- From: André Knappstein, Controlling [mailto:knappst...@beta-eigenheim.de] Sent: 07 January 2010 04:21 PM To: Louis van Alphen Subject: Re: [Firebird-net-provider] Character set problem between with Firebird & .NET provider I would se

Re: [Firebird-net-provider] Character set problem between with Firebird & .NET provider

2010-01-07 Thread André Knappstein , Controlling
I don't know. If I remember correctly I have read that unicode takes an extra byte per character and I did not want to hit any technical limit (max. lenghth of index key and such...) And I dimly remember that there were such limits for FB 1.5, which have been extended along with 2.x. Our database

Re: [Firebird-net-provider] Character set problem between with Firebird & .NET provider

2010-01-07 Thread Jiri Cincura
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 16:54, André Knappstein, Controlling wrote: > We changed everything to Win1252 instead, which supports spanish and > french characters as well as German Umlauts and ß Why not unicode? -- Jiri {x2} Cincura (CTO x2develop.com) http://blog.cincura.net/ | http://www.ID3rename

Re: [Firebird-net-provider] Character set problem between with Firebird & .NET provider

2010-01-07 Thread André Knappstein , Controlling
I would second what Jiri wrote. We have been using 8859_1 widely. This works okay with ODBC. Using .net, some things did not work correctly. Or rather they worked correctly but not as we expected :) ISO8859_1 does - for example - not really specify a solution for displaying the Euro symbol (€). W

Re: [Firebird-net-provider] Character set problem between with Firebird & .NET provider

2010-01-07 Thread Jiri Cincura
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 13:45, Louis van Alphen wrote: > What else do I need to do? Are you sure, that your application works in ISO8859_1. For .NET I don't think so. -- Jiri {x2} Cincura (CTO x2develop.com) http://blog.cincura.net/ | http://www.ID3renamer.com --

[Firebird-net-provider] Character set problem between with Firebird & .NET provider

2010-01-07 Thread Louis van Alphen
Hi, I would appreciate it if someone could help. I am I South Africa and is developing an application for use in South Africa, France and Italy. Therefore the application and database has to support the French and Italian special characters. I created the database using IBExpert with a defa