Thanks for the reply!

It's all working from Qt - we can edit the strings, they get saved
correctly into database etc. However - some of our people here edit a
database using our Qt application, strings all get stored correctly. We
then extract their data using IBExpert, for inclusion in our database
generation scripts, which are run through isql. They then get turned
into mush!

Thanks,

Peter Lee

Dunbar, Norman wrote:

> Peter,
>
>
>>> We are creating our database with varchar fields being UTF8.
>>> ...
>>> However, when inserting strings such as 'più' - we don't get an
>>> error, but in our db utility (IBExpert) it shows this;
>>> ...
>>>
>
> I **think** you need to assign your fields from a QString->toUtf8() rather than just from the QString itself.
>
> See the help:
>
> QByteArray QString::toUtf8 () const
>
> Returns a UTF-8 representation of the string as a QByteArray.
>
> See also fromUtf8(), toAscii(), toLatin1(), toLocal8Bit(), and QTextCodec.
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> Cheers,
> Norman.
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