Subject Re: [firebird-support] Re: Firebird and Unicode queries
Author Lester Caine
salisburyproject wrote:

> I was playing for few days already, trying to use UNICODE_FSS... No
> success - the data simply is inserted incorrectly..
Yep - I'll agree with that :(

> I am very frustrated and confused. Support for multiple languages is
> a basic requirement for this application..
Same in the Archive - I need the raw data to be consistent so that
anybody can extract it, but it's not happening yet.

> P.S. If someone here knows where definition of the 'UNICODE_FSS'
> format can be found, please send a link..

I'll second that - I've got the UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32 stuff and now
*I* understand better what is going on. But the problem *I* seem to be
seeing is that the string content is changed before being sent

This *IS* a combination of client application and client interface, but
ANY pointers as to how to make it work would be nice.
(Helen 'The Book' is wrong - UNICODE_FSS can not store full UTF-8 As
THAT can be up to 6 bytes. UTF-32 is a four byte truncation of UTF-8 so
can only be stored if the upper ( or is that the lower endien ;) ) byte
is 00)

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