Hello David and Willie,

DJ> I had poor luck saving unicode from Delphi. Others may have had more
DJ> success. The Delphi (UCS2) widestring does not support enough code
DJ> points to handle the full Unicode specification.

DJ> On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 12:49 +0000, willie_juson wrote:

>> I am writing an ASP.Net app with a Firebird backend database. It
>> requires multi language (Chinese/English initially) support. Could I
>> please get some guidelines on how to store/retrieve chinese (simple)
>> characters from a database table. To get an understanding of it I've
>> been trying via a Delphi 7 app to populate the table using TntWare data
>> aware controls plus IBConnection/IBQuery/TClientDataset data controls.
>> I can't get it to save chinese characters, as soon as I "post" a record
>> the chinese character become "?"s.

And could you use GB_2312 (simplified Chinese) character set and
collation instead of unicode?


HTH
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Best regards,
Pavel Menshchikov
http://www.ls-software.com