Actually iso-8859-1 is fine except for 4 characters, char252,253,254 and 255, basically meaning you cannot store u umlaut and some others if in that character set. However if you use utf-8 you can store these characters and retrieve them in your code. What may not work so well for utf-8 characters over 0x7f is the inbuilt sort and display routines, i.e. TCL commands like sort, select etc.
It is a funny kind of question really as the character set is irrelevant to the data storage, but the encoding is important especially as uv uses certain special characters as delimiters in its data store. None of these characters are in use by utf-8 so it is fairly safe to store that. What you must remember is what encoding you are using when writing data to a uv file so you know how to treat it when you get it back out. Uv itself does not enforce or remember what encoding has been used. Rgds Symeon. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Boydell, Stuart Sent: 08 July 2008 07:12 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] charset uv database Hi Pam, Western European (iso-8859-1) Cheers, Stuart >-----Original Message----- >hi, I would like to know the default charset use by an UV database ********************************************************************** This email message and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of addressed recipient(s). If you have received this communication in error, please reply to this e-mail to notify the sender of its incorrect delivery and then delete it and your reply. It is your responsibility to check this email and any attachments for viruses and defects before opening or sending them on. Spotless collects information about you to provide and market our services. For information about use, disclosure and access, see our privacy policy at http://www.spotless.com.au Please consider our environment before printing this email. ********************************************************************** ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ Internal Virus Database is out of date. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.134 / Virus Database: 270.4.5/1533 - Release Date: 7/3/2008 7:19 PM Internal Virus Database is out of date. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.134 / Virus Database: 270.4.5/1533 - Release Date: 7/3/2008 7:19 PM ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
