[Lazarus] Losing data when saving Database fileds with "Size" defined and UTF8 chars

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Reinier Olislagers schrieb:
> On 16/07/2013 17:18, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
>> Reinier Olislagers schrieb:
>>> On 15-7-2013 18:43, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
>>>> Reinier Olislagers schrieb:
>>>>> On 14-7-2013 8:00, Daniel Simoes de Ameida wrote:
>>>>> Workaround: make your field size as large as the maximum number of UTF8
>>>>> bytes you expect.
>>>> Another workaround: use the appropriate codepage for storing strings in
>>>> the database, so that all characters are single bytes. With the new
>>>> (encoded) AnsiStrings this should be quite easy (automatic conversion).
>>>>
>>> Wouldn't you run into trouble if you want to use a character outside the
>>> codepage? Presumably OP has enabled UTF8 on the db instead of some other
>>> codepage on purpose.
>> Then the choice of byte sized characters in the DB field is
>> inappropriate at all. I wonder how the DB or SQL would sort or compare
>> (LIKE) such strings?
> 
> No it isn't. Why shouldn't a user be able to enter Chinese, Greek,
> Cyrillic and Latin characters?

Then such characters either must be understood properly by the DB, or 
the DB must not care about such data at all.

> As for sorting etc, there are various unicode collation standards.

A DB implementing these standards has to offer Unicode fields in the 
first place.

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