Subject Re: [firebird-support] Re: Can I pass Unicode connection string to fbclient.dll
Author Adriano dos Santos Fernandes
Chau Chee Yang escreveu:
>> This is why I talk about OS. If your ANSI/MBCS encoding is UTF-8 (I
>> doubt Windows uses it in any locale) it will work.
>>
>> You need to pass your filenames using the ANSI/MBCS encoding.
>
> So there isn't way to pass unicode file name to fbclient.dll? Or will
> this in future plan of firebird?
>
Hopefully we can have it in 3.0.

> I ask this question is because Delphi 2009 start support Unicode and
> it is a normal practice and expectation that we will pass the
> connection string as unicode too.
>
How it supports? Is each char of a string 2 bytes? Does it call now the
wide WinAPI functions (CreateFileW instead of CreateFileA)?


Adriano