>>Steve Summers escreveu:
>>
>>> I personally don't really understand the difference
>>> between "octets" and "none".
>>>
>>>
> Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote:
>>
>> The only difference is (or should be) that the pad character of
>> NONE is space (0x20) and of OCTETS is 0x00.
>>
>>

Jim Starkey wrote:

> We have a field sub-type to indicate that a field declared as character
> is, in fact, octets. Why do we have "charset none"?
>

The subtype isn't used that way any more. A binary byte stream is
described as a char [n] or varchar [n] of character set OCTET.
Charset none is what you get when you declare a char [n] or varchar [n]
without specifying a characters set either on the field, the domain
or as the default for the database.


Regards,


Ann