Re: [Firebird-docs] LangRef 2.5beta1 - a few suggestions /2

2016-03-28 Thread Paul Vinkenoog
Aage Johansen wrote: > First, thanks to Paul for checking my suggestions. > Actually, I may have misremembered: I thought there might be pitfalls > regarding the sign of the result. There are. Or rather, there is one: 0x8000 - 0x map to negative INTEGER values, whereas 0x08000 -

Re: [Firebird-docs] LangRef 2.5beta1 - a few suggestions /2

2016-03-22 Thread Paul Vinkenoog
Hi Helen, > Another thing we seem to have missed by the same method (!) was binary > strings in hex format. > > Unless you have feelings against it, I should just pick up the > relevant source from LangUpdate25, slot it into the appropriate > places and cross-ref where needed. Yes, please use

Re: [Firebird-docs] LangRef 2.5beta1 - a few suggestions /2

2016-03-22 Thread Paul Vinkenoog
Hi Helen, > > p.51 (end of first paragraph): > > A CONTAINING search is not case-sensitive. > > > Maybe a comment/warning on accent-sensitivity? > > I think you might be the first person involved with this text who has > day-to-day experience with data in a language with accented > characters.