Re: [mdb-dev] UTF-8 support

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

Jeff,

You are right about the email telling us that Brian was coding the UTF-8
support. There is no doubt that was a mistake to write a fix without
telling all developers. Even so, we had many samples of MDB files which
were not opening with the last mdbtools version (I mean from CVS). We
thought that was not difficult because there has been a patch for UTF-8
in mdbtools site. Our aim is helping on development and let be mdbtools
a better tool. We hope that our "slipped" don't come to misunderstand,
although we are not competing with the rest of developers.

By the way the bug 669739 is still active. There is a workaround there,
but for people which don't use Access, is not a good workaround. I
created a database with Access XP with one table. I inserted 2 lines of
data in this table. Then I created a second table with a copy of the
first one. Second I removed the first (Campo1) and the third (Campo3)
columns. Finally I insert a new row in second table. So open this
database with gmdb2 and the columns is shuffled and data of the last row
/ first column is missing. The file mdb is attached with this e-mail.

Regards,
Luciano


On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 21:02, Jeff Smith wrote:
> If I am not mistaken, Brian already has some code for this (not that he
> would not be able to use any of your work), but has not checked it in
> due to some design decisions.  See message "Re: [mdb-dev] Old code" from
> July 17th.  I assume you are subscribed to the list.
> 
> As for bug 669739, do you have test case to confirm this bug (in the latest
> pre-release)?  A lot has changed in the code since the bug was reported and
> it may be a dead issue.
> 
>  -- Jeff S
> 
> 
> --- Luciano Miguel Wolf <luc...@fr...> wrote:
> > 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 Michlek. 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
> 
> 
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