Re: [Firebird-net-provider] I have problem with russian language

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Hello:

> Trying to find some backing information on the WWW, now I feel
> only quarter-informed. But you invited me to comment...
>
:)

>(a) AND (b) => (c) The whole character set issue is void for .NET,
>the connection should always be Unicode, the programmer should
>always only see the UTF-16 encoded data and all necessary translation
>is done by data provider (there may be a backdoor needed for getting the
>actual byte sequence from the server, for very special cases).
>
I'm using GetString and GetBytes methods of the .NET encoding classes 
for encode/decode data of character set fields.

>It follows, that a column charset declaration only affects the possible 
>character repertoire for this column and sorting behaviour, but is otherwise
>unnoticed by the C# program.
>
Dou you mean that in sample C# program there are no explicit character 
set definition for the query parameters ??

>It would be most helpful to compare the behaviour of other DBMS's 
>data provider implementations, notable PostgreSQL.
>
It's good idea .... (Huuummmmm I have not great knowledge of PostgreSQL 
but as i know it doesn't allow character sets per field).





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Best regards

Carlos Guzmán Álvarez
Vigo-Spain