Re: [Firebird-devel] String escapes for codepoints

2019-09-25 Thread Kjell Rilbe
Den 2019-09-24 kl. 17:03, skrev Dimitry Sibiryakov: > 24.09.2019 16:27, Kjell Rilbe wrote: >> The built-in function ASCII_CHAR(n) seems to only accept integers 0..255 >> and not have any character set support whatsoever. > >   ASCII (which this function has in name) define only 127 symbols. Yes, o

Re: [Firebird-devel] String escapes for codepoints

2019-09-25 Thread Dimitry Sibiryakov
25.09.2019 10:11, Kjell Rilbe wrote: It would be a lot more useful with an ability to specify the character codepoint inside a string literal, and have that codepoint automatically encoded into the string using that string's character set and encoding. For example, the capital letter Ö with Un

Re: [Firebird-devel] String escapes for codepoints

2019-09-25 Thread Kjell Rilbe
Den 2019-09-25 kl. 11:35, skrev Dimitry Sibiryakov: > 25.09.2019 10:11, Kjell Rilbe wrote: >>   It would be a >> lot more useful with an ability to specify the character codepoint >> inside a string literal, and have that codepoint automatically encoded >> into the string using that string's charac

Re: [Firebird-devel] String escapes for codepoints

2019-09-25 Thread Dimitry Sibiryakov
25.09.2019 11:52, Kjell Rilbe wrote: Most Unicode characaters are not available on most keyboards. For example, I have a Swedish keyboard. To enter a "Φ" (U+03A6), I will need to find it in Windows character table app (browse, browse, browse...) or find it on the Internet, like I did this time an

Re: [Firebird-devel] String escapes for codepoints

2019-09-25 Thread Kjell Rilbe
Den 2019-09-25 kl. 13:45, skrev Dimitry Sibiryakov: > 25.09.2019 11:52, Kjell Rilbe wrote: >> Most Unicode characaters are not available on most keyboards. For >> example, I have a Swedish keyboard. To enter a "Φ" (U+03A6), I will need >> to find it in Windows character table app (browse, browse, b

Re: [Firebird-devel] String escapes for codepoints

2019-09-25 Thread Mark Rotteveel
On 25-9-2019 10:11, Kjell Rilbe wrote: The suggested could be used to write characters using the literal's encoding directly. E.g. För UTF-8 literal, the character Ö could be written as '\xC3\xB6', and in an WIN1252 literal it could be written as '\xD6'. Since these kinds of escapes would be a

Re: [Firebird-devel] fbclient.dll on Windows 64 bit broken

2019-09-25 Thread Mark Rotteveel
On 21-9-2019 21:30, Vlad Khorsun wrote: 21.09.2019 17:22, Mark Rotteveel wrote: In the latest snapshot build (4.0.0.1614) for Windows 64 bit, the fbclient.dll is broken (I haven't checked Windows 32 bit). The library fails to load with a "A dynamic link library (DLL) initialization routine fai

Re: [Firebird-devel] String escapes for codepoints

2019-09-25 Thread Kjell Rilbe
Den 2019-09-25 kl. 18:05, skrev Mark Rotteveel: > On 25-9-2019 10:11, Kjell Rilbe wrote: >> The suggested could be used to write characters >> using the literal's encoding directly. E.g. För UTF-8 literal, the >> character Ö could be written as '\xC3\xB6', and in an WIN1252 literal it >> could be

[Firebird-devel] [FB-Tracker] Created: (CORE-6148) Missing character '; ' at end of line '/* CREATE DATABASE 'd:\DBase\S-MARKET.FDB' PAGE_SIZE 16384 DEFAULT CHARACTER SET WIN1251 */'

2019-09-25 Thread Valchenko Igor (JIRA)
Missing character ';' at end of line '/* CREATE DATABASE 'd:\DBase\S-MARKET.FDB' PAGE_SIZE 16384 DEFAULT CHARACTER SET WIN1251 */' Key: CORE-6148

[Firebird-devel] [FB-Tracker] Created: (CORE-6149) When uploading metadata, calculated fields can be higher than one of the composite fields.

2019-09-25 Thread Valchenko Igor (JIRA)
When uploading metadata, calculated fields can be higher than one of the composite fields. -- Key: CORE-6149 URL: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-6149