Re: [Firebird-devel] Are character set ID's signed or unsigned?

[John B. <bel...@cs...>]

On Thursday, June 14, 2001, at 07:13 AM, Ann W. Harrison wrote:

> At 11:25 PM 6/13/2001 -0700, John Bellardo wrote:
>> Hi,
>>         As the subject asks:  are character set ID's signed or 
>> unsigned?
>> My C++ compiler is _very_ picky about these things....
>
> I don't know what they are, but they should be unsigned.

OK.  open_blob in blob_filter.epp (or blf.e in FB1) uses SSHORT locals 
to store character sets, which the compiler was rejecting because it 
called functions expecting USHORT.

-John