[mdb-dev] UTF-8 support

[Luciano M. W. <luc...@fr...>]

Hi mdbtools developers,

A few weeks ago I wrote to this list asking for UTF-8 support. In the
mean time the company where I am working increased its interests in this
feature. I and co-worker (Alexandre Horst) have been working in source
code of libmdb and we have implemented the UTF-8 support. We have fixed
some problems in UFT-8 and UCS-2 conversion using libiconv and some
ideas from Petr Michálek. I think the creator of mdbtools should
validate this code to assure there is no problems. 

I will send those patches to the site
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=302294&group_id=2294&func=browse .
We have tested them with some MDB files in Japanese, Chinese, Russian,
Arabian, French and other languages. You can see columns/table names and
data in those languages.

Our next attempt will be to fix the bug #669739 - Shuffled columns from
Jet4. How could we send the modifications directly to the source? Is
there any way to do it?

Regards,
Luciano