Their mailing list is not working. Which is not a surprise because the last version of UDF is from 2009…
Regards. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of marcus Sent: Friday, December 13, 2013 3:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [firebird-support] FreeAdhocUDF: file functions - can not SAVE\LOAD blobs with unicode paths. Hej, <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] wrote: > Hi guys, > > have anyone tried these functions? I can save and load ascii named blobs > to disk but it does not work for unicode paths. For example: > > SELECT F_BLOBLOAD('E:\你好.txt') FROM RDB$DATABASE gives me an empty blob. > > I can not test it via FlameRobin because it is not able to properly > create a query with unicode characters in it. > > I've tested it with Firebird Maestro but I got nothing (empty blob). The > same with Delphi. > > It is very frustrating because I do not know where the problem lies: > > 1. Is CSTRING type a UTF-8 based type? It is required as an input path > parameter. > 2. Does Database character set can influence this? I've tried setup with > NONE and UTF-8, nothing changes. > 3. Perhaps those functions are not working with UTF-8 paths, but on the > website it is written that they are UTF-8 compatibile (whatever that means?) > 4. Perhaps everything is working fine but SQL Maestro is not sendingdata > in valid text format, the same goes for Delphi. > > I lot of "ifs", maybe someone has some experience with this? Thank you. Probably the wrong list? They have a own mailing list: <http://freeadhocudf.org/mailing_eng.html> http://freeadhocudf.org/mailing_eng.html
