Re: unicode and dbf files

2009-10-27 Thread Ethan Furman
John Machin wrote: There may possibly different interpretations of a codepage out there somewhere, but they are all *intended* to be the same, and I advise you to cross the different-cp437s bridge *if* it exists and you ever come to it. Have you got access to files with LDID not in (0, 1) that y

Re: unicode and dbf files

2009-10-27 Thread John Machin
On Oct 28, 2:51 am, Ethan Furman wrote: > John Machin wrote: > > On Oct 27, 7:15 am, Ethan Furman wrote: > > >>Let me rephrase -- say I get a dbf file with an LDID of \x0f that maps > >>to a cp437, and the file came from a german oem machine... could that > >>file have upper-ascii codes that will

Re: unicode and dbf files

2009-10-27 Thread Ethan Furman
John Machin wrote: On Oct 27, 7:15 am, Ethan Furman wrote: > Let me rephrase -- say I get a dbf file with an LDID of \x0f that maps to a cp437, and the file came from a german oem machine... could that file have upper-ascii codes that will not map to anything reasonable on my \x01 cp437 machin

Re: unicode and dbf files

2009-10-26 Thread John Machin
On Oct 27, 7:15 am, Ethan Furman wrote: > John Machin wrote: > > On Oct 27, 3:22 am, Ethan Furman wrote: > > >>John Machin wrote: > > >>>Try this: > >>>http://webhelp.esri.com/arcpad/8.0/referenceguide/ > > >>Wow.  Question, though:  all those codepages mapping to 437 and 850 -- > >>are they real

Re: unicode and dbf files

2009-10-26 Thread Ethan Furman
John Machin wrote: On Oct 27, 3:22 am, Ethan Furman wrote: John Machin wrote: Try this: http://webhelp.esri.com/arcpad/8.0/referenceguide/ Wow. Question, though: all those codepages mapping to 437 and 850 -- are they really all the same? 437 and 850 *are* codepages. You mean "all those

Re: unicode and dbf files

2009-10-26 Thread John Machin
On Oct 27, 3:22 am, Ethan Furman wrote: > John Machin wrote: > > On Oct 24, 4:14 am, Ethan Furman wrote: > > >>John Machin wrote: > > >>>On Oct 23, 3:03 pm, Ethan Furman wrote: > > John Machin wrote: > > >On Oct 23, 7:28 am, Ethan Furman wrote: > > > Try this: > >http://webhelp.esri.com

Re: unicode and dbf files

2009-10-26 Thread Ethan Furman
John Machin wrote: On Oct 24, 4:14 am, Ethan Furman wrote: John Machin wrote: On Oct 23, 3:03 pm, Ethan Furman wrote: John Machin wrote: On Oct 23, 7:28 am, Ethan Furman wrote: Greetings, all! I would like to add unicode support to my dbf project. The dbf header has a one-byte

Re: unicode and dbf files

2009-10-24 Thread John Machin
On Oct 24, 4:14 am, Ethan Furman wrote: > John Machin wrote: > > On Oct 23, 3:03 pm, Ethan Furman wrote: > > >>John Machin wrote: > > >>>On Oct 23, 7:28 am, Ethan Furman wrote: > > Greetings, all! > > I would like to add unicode support to my dbf project.  The dbf header > has a one-

Re: unicode and dbf files

2009-10-23 Thread Ethan Furman
John Machin wrote: On Oct 23, 3:03 pm, Ethan Furman wrote: John Machin wrote: On Oct 23, 7:28 am, Ethan Furman wrote: Greetings, all! I would like to add unicode support to my dbf project. The dbf header has a one-byte field to hold the encoding of the file. For example, \x03 is cod

Re: unicode and dbf files

2009-10-23 Thread John Machin
On Oct 23, 3:03 pm, Ethan Furman wrote: > John Machin wrote: > > On Oct 23, 7:28 am, Ethan Furman wrote: > > >>Greetings, all! > > >>I would like to add unicode support to my dbf project.  The dbf header > >>has a one-byte field to hold the encoding of the file.  For example, > >>\x03 is code-pag

Re: unicode and dbf files

2009-10-22 Thread Ethan Furman
John Machin wrote: On Oct 23, 7:28 am, Ethan Furman wrote: Greetings, all! I would like to add unicode support to my dbf project. The dbf header has a one-byte field to hold the encoding of the file. For example, \x03 is code-page 437 MS-DOS. My google-fu is apparently not up to the task o

Re: unicode and dbf files

2009-10-22 Thread John Machin
On Oct 23, 7:28 am, Ethan Furman wrote: > Greetings, all! > > I would like to add unicode support to my dbf project.  The dbf header > has a one-byte field to hold the encoding of the file.  For example, > \x03 is code-page 437 MS-DOS. > > My google-fu is apparently not up to the task of locating

unicode and dbf files

2009-10-22 Thread Ethan Furman
Greetings, all! I would like to add unicode support to my dbf project. The dbf header has a one-byte field to hold the encoding of the file. For example, \x03 is code-page 437 MS-DOS. My google-fu is apparently not up to the task of locating a complete resource that has a list of the 256 p