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by Torbjorn
Thu Jun 14, 2007 6:51 am
Forum: Databases
Topic: MySQL and character conversion
Replies: 3
Views: 6143

More on MySQL and character conversion

Thanks Mark, I'm against converting data back and forth between different character encodings. The main reason is the risk of losing characters that are not represented in both encodings. I'm also opposed to unnecessary data manipulation. I'm going to try getting the data from the database unmodifie...
by Torbjorn
Thu May 24, 2007 12:41 pm
Forum: Databases
Topic: MySQL and character conversion
Replies: 3
Views: 6143

MySQL and character conversion

All my MySQL databases and tables are in UTF-8 only. Still everything is delivered in ISO-8859-1 when I read data into Revolution (2.8.1). Do I really have to take care of that myself? Right now I have to do something like this: if the platform contains "Mac" then put ISOToMac(theText) into theText ...