| Subject | Re: [firebird-support] Storing Delphi 2009 "UnicodeString" into database, UTF8? |
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| Author | Stefan Heymann |
| Post date | 2009-05-18T14:14:32Z |
Martijn,
to UTF-8 and back without loss. AFAIK Firebird doesn't work with any
16-Bit string types, so you'll have to convert everything before
storing it in the database (or your Client library does it; if it's
IBO I'm not sure how good it is with that :-(
Regards
Stefan
> I'm developing an application that needs to store Delphi 2009the new Delphi 2009 UnicodeString type is UTF-16. You can convert that
> UnicodeString, would Firebird UTF8 be OK for that?
to UTF-8 and back without loss. AFAIK Firebird doesn't work with any
16-Bit string types, so you'll have to convert everything before
storing it in the database (or your Client library does it; if it's
IBO I'm not sure how good it is with that :-(
Regards
Stefan