On 1/11/2012 6:22 PM, Grigore Dolghin wrote: > I need to jump in here. VFP isn't unicode, but the OS is. In some > circumstances VFP is tricked by the OS and does some "translation" by its > own so you have to make absolutely sure this doen't happen. Storing the > binary encoded as hexbinary is one way to do it; another would be to define > the encrypted column as varbinary. According to VFP help, "No code page > translation is performed on *Varbinary* data." And that's the whole point > of it. VFP will use the actual value, without trying to be smart.
Good answer...Thanks! -- Mike Babcock, MCP MB Software Solutions, LLC President, Chief Software Architect http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com http://fabmate.com http://twitter.com/mbabcock16 _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.

