Subject Re: [Firebird-Architect] Re: The Wolf on Firebird 3
Author Jim Starkey
Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote:

>Steve Summers escreveu:
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>>I personally don't really understand the difference between "octets" and "none". Is there one, or is this just a convention
>>that helps document the intended purpose of the data?
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>The only difference is (or should be) that the pad character of NONE is
>space (0x20) and of OCTETS is 0x00.
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We have a field sub-type to indicate that a field declared as character
is, in fact, octets. Why do we have "charset none"?

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Jim Starkey
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