Re: Code pages and encoding -- worries about USA app aboard? (was RE: Interesting GOTCHA from 16-byte binary key)

2014-06-11 Thread mbsoftwaresolutions
On 2014-06-11 16:55, Stephen Russell wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 3:36 PM, < mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com> wrote: I'm not using Foxpro DBFs; I'm using MariaDB (MySQL) on the backend, so I guess no worries with that! ??? --- You need to identify the collatio

Re: Code pages and encoding -- worries about USA app aboard? (was RE: Interesting GOTCHA from 16-byte binary key)

2014-06-11 Thread Stephen Russell
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 3:36 PM, < mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com> wrote: > I'm not using Foxpro DBFs; I'm using MariaDB (MySQL) on the backend, so I > guess no worries with that! ??? > > --- You need to identify the collation for your data. https://mariadb.com/kb/e

Re: Code pages and encoding -- worries about USA app aboard? (was RE: Interesting GOTCHA from 16-byte binary key)

2014-06-11 Thread mbsoftwaresolutions
I'm not using Foxpro DBFs; I'm using MariaDB (MySQL) on the backend, so I guess no worries with that! ??? On 2014-06-11 13:29, Paul Hill wrote: English Windows uses the Western European codepage. So does French, Italian, Spanish, German, Swedish and others. The only time you will see a prob

Re: Code pages and encoding -- worries about USA app aboard? (was RE: Interesting GOTCHA from 16-byte binary key)

2014-06-11 Thread Stephen Russell
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 12:39 PM, < mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com> wrote: > No no, Steve...yeah, email addresses and phone numbers are different but > I'm asking about how data is STORED? I couldn't care if it's .com or . > com.uk or .com.stephen. >> >> - Data is s

Re: Code pages and encoding -- worries about USA app aboard? (was RE: Interesting GOTCHA from 16-byte binary key)

2014-06-11 Thread mbsoftwaresolutions
No no, Steve...yeah, email addresses and phone numbers are different but I'm asking about how data is STORED? I couldn't care if it's .com or .com.uk or .com.stephen. On 2014-06-11 13:00, Stephen Russell wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 11:55 AM, < mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com>

Re: Code pages and encoding -- worries about USA app aboard? (was RE: Interesting GOTCHA from 16-byte binary key)

2014-06-11 Thread Paul Hill
English Windows uses the Western European codepage. So does French, Italian, Spanish, German, Swedish and others. The only time you will see a problem is if you mix the windows codepage and the dbf codepage. If they are the same it should be OK. If not Fox will convert on the fly. If a letter do

Re: Code pages and encoding -- worries about USA app aboard? (was RE: Interesting GOTCHA from 16-byte binary key)

2014-06-11 Thread Stephen Russell
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 11:55 AM, < mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com> wrote: > If I make an app that works great here in the USA, what worries do I have > (with respect to how data is stored) if it goes overseas? Must I use > unicode? I mean--using English machines as a prerequisite--

Code pages and encoding -- worries about USA app aboard? (was RE: Interesting GOTCHA from 16-byte binary key)

2014-06-11 Thread mbsoftwaresolutions
If I make an app that works great here in the USA, what worries do I have (with respect to how data is stored) if it goes overseas? Must I use unicode? I mean--using English machines as a prerequisite--isn't it the same ASCII character set? Honestly, I don't see this app going outside the US