[fpc-devel] TField.AsString and Databases with UTF-8 charset

[Joost van der Sluis]

Op dinsdag 21-07-2009 om 19:30 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Michael Van
Canneyt:
> 
> On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, Joost van der Sluis wrote:
> 
> > Op dinsdag 21-07-2009 om 17:23 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Michael Van
> > Canneyt:
> >>> I'll put together a small test case and sample Firebird database so I can
> >>> rule out tiOPF as a possible cause. I'll also double check using different
> >>> database components. I have SqlDB, FBLib and IBX (from Delphi 7) available
> >>> here.
> >>
> >> IBX will present problems; I had problems with field sizes when using IBX and
> >> Delphi 7 and firebird 2.1, which seems to use UTF-8 for metadata.
> >> It might be interesting to see how they solved the problem in later Delphis.
> >
> > Delphi doesn't support Firebird at all for now.
> 
> It depends what you mean with Support. I use D7, IBX with about 1000 Firebird
> databases since 6 years without any problems.
> 
> So 'support' is relative :-)

We also use it, but I know a few things that won't work...

Joost.