[Firebird-net-provider] Re: [Firebird-odbc-devel] Always return DBCS Length for string field ?

[Peter J. <pj...@wa...>]

Hi Shum, All, 

"Shum W.C." <sh...@mi...> wrote:
> I use BIG-5 Character set (Traditional Chinese Character)
> 
> I have the following problem after fetched fireBird through IBPhoenix ODBC
> 
> the result data (string type) always double the length:
> 
> for examples:
> 1.)  I get "Y " instead of "Y"  even the field is defined as CHR(1)
> 2.) "ABC   " instead of "ABC even the field is definec as CHR(3)

Carlos has fought against the very same problem (but surfacing for UTF-8, 
where all strings get triple length) for the .NET-provider.

Perhaps his solution (if any) can be ported to ODBC.

Regards,
Peter Jacobi