Martijn Tonies wrote:

>>>> I think that text draw problem, not IBO core(or API) problem.
>>>> This case become correct result with e.g. TMS unicode controls.
>>>> It will be possible if unicode controls or ExtTextOutW API.. are used.
>>>>
>>> However, on VARCHAR it works just fine, so what's the deal here?
>>>
>> Sorry, i have mistaken. The german umlaute are BMP in UCS2(ansi range).
>>
>>> Additional Information
>>>
>> As far as i understanding in IB_components.pas,
>> The ansi decoding is only string type. (Please see
>>
> SetAsString/GetAsString)
>
>> The transliteraion of BLOB type may be necessity...
>>
>
> But how do these characters for VARCHAR get displayed then? I have
> a test table here, with two columns, one is the varchar and one is the
> blob subtype text, I insert the same values in both. Varchar is displayed
> just fine, while the blob isn't.
>

Martijn - I'm getting behind the times nowadays, but is this simply a
matter that while the BLOB type may say TEXT, the software does not have
that information, so has to treat BLOB as raw binary? VARCHAR is text
and has a flag for the character set?

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