Did anyone else reading the original thread think ... That has nothing to do with Unicode. The error is that he was trying to save a value that didn't exist in his menu of choices.
Fred -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jarl Grøneng Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 1:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Unicode... Thanks for your answer... - Jarl On Dec 13, 2007 12:40 AM, Easter, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm reading the answer from David as the application developers does > > not know the difference between a byte and a character.... > > Yes, I do find this to be true - it's a combination of three things: > > 1. In older (6.3 and before) versions of AR System documentation, it was > stated that the field length is in characters. This didn't cause a problem > when a character set has a one-to-one mapping of bytes to characters, but it > isn't true for multi-byte languages. So when we added Unicode support in > 7.0, the documentation was updated to be more technically accurate that the > field length is really in bytes, not characters. > > 2. Others just haven't read the documentation at all and make an assumption > that "length" is in characters, when it's really in bytes. > > 3. Some folks don't know that characters can be more than one byte in length. > So when they want a field to hold 10 characters, they select "10" as the > field length. Then, when Unicode is used, multi-byte characters exceed the > field length of 10 bytes. > > Put these together, and you run into this problem. > > Note that by "application developers" I mean those that create applications > on top of AR System. The AR System engineers themselves have always known > that field lengths are in bytes. It's only recently with the introduction of > Unicode support (i.e. 7.0.00 and forward) where there has been confusion in > the customer base about this topic. > > Thanks, > > -David J. Easter > Sr. Product Manager, Service Management Business Unit BMC Software, > Inc. > > The opinions, statements, and/or suggested courses of action expressed in > this E-mail do not necessarily reflect those of BMC Software, Inc. My > voluntary participation in this forum is not intended to convey a role as a > spokesperson, liaison or public relations representative for BMC Software, > Inc. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jarl Grøneng > Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 11:56 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Unicode... > > Intresting answers from BMC: > http://developer.bmc.com/jiveProd/thread.jspa?threadID=8144&tstart=0 > > I'm reading the answer from David as the application developers does > not know the difference between a byte and a character.... > > -- > Jarl > > ______________________________________________________________________ > _________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org > Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" > > ______________________________________________________________________ > _________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org > Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" > _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
