I think std function for convertions would be very helpful.
I am still having issues trying to get my charaters standardizsed. I spent all of yesterday playing with ideas but it still in the dark. Part of my problem is I dont have a clue what my source data is encoded as. Does anyone know of a tool which can try and guess the encoding? Basically its a custom java bean written by someone else. It takes reports from a third party system turns them into XML using a string buffer. They just append everything to a string buffer. The code which actually adds this to the output (the key peice) I cant actually see at this point. So by my best guess based on research is that java usually uses UTF-16. But if this is so, it should work. If I add the text using the *16 prepare and then retrieve it using the *16 column_text, I still get the two seperate characters instead of the umlaught thingie. So I can only assume that somehow my source isnt UTF-16. or I am converting it somewhere in the middle. This is possible since I am using Delphi and it has some implicit convertions, but I think I have got that under control. The problem is if I copy my source and paste it into Notepad say, it shows correctly cause notepad then does it own stuff, and if I save the notepad and read that it works fine. *sigh*. So my questions are: 1) Any tools to determine encoding based on datas? 2) When using the NON16 version of prepare: If I add text which is in UTF16 what happens? 16 Version: If I add UTF16 text what happnes? if I add UTF-8 Text what happens? if I add ASCIII text what happnes? Thanks,
