Hello Milan,

>> I'm not sure how much sense this makes to me :-)
>
> I did not like it myself when I learned about it, but this is how it was
> explained to me on firebird-devel a few months ago. And it does work.
>
>> UTF8 has 1, 2, 3 or 4 bytes per character, right? So the buffer for
>> characters is always "4 bytes" * "number of characters".
>
> That's correct.
>
>> But what happens
>> in your particular case if the character is 2 bytes long? You cannot
>> truncate it to the first byte (to get ASCII 'Y')?
>
> You don't truncate it to number of bytes, you truncate it to number of
> characters. It should be done using some function of your "string class"
> (ex. wxString in FlameRobin) after you convert the string from UTF8 to
> the character set used by user's desktop environment.

Then what would be the raw byte buffer for a CHAR(2), UTF8, with
a value of 'NO'?

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
Upscene Productions
http://www.upscene.com

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