Re: [Firebird-net-provider] Character set problem between with Firebird & .NET provider

2010-01-07 Thread André Knappstein , Controlling
I don't know. If I remember correctly I have read that unicode takes an extra byte per character and I did not want to hit any technical limit (max. lenghth of index key and such...) And I dimly remember that there were such limits for FB 1.5, which have been extended along with 2.x. Our database

Re: [Firebird-net-provider] R: Command.Parameters property

2010-01-07 Thread João Dias de Carvalho Neto
Eureka After a (sleepy) week I finally got the obvious and great idea of to compile the svn last commit on Mono and my code worked fine. I had compiled the previously assembly on VS2008 with MONO;LINUX directives. Correct me if necessary, but I think that is a bug to Mono project; PS: Jiri,

Re: [Firebird-net-provider] Can debugger output be disabled for FirebirdSql.Data.FirebirdClient?

2010-01-07 Thread Jiri Cincura
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 17:12, Josh Williams wrote: > I’ve been developing using the embedded version of FirebirdSql and the .NET > client wrapper for a few months now and believe everything with the database > to be solid.  However, as I’m moving away from the database portion of the > program, I’

Re: [Firebird-net-provider] Character set problem between with Firebird & .NET provider

2010-01-07 Thread Jiri Cincura
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 16:54, André Knappstein, Controlling wrote: > We changed everything to Win1252 instead, which supports spanish and > french characters as well as German Umlauts and ß Why not unicode? -- Jiri {x2} Cincura (CTO x2develop.com) http://blog.cincura.net/ | http://www.ID3rename

[Firebird-net-provider] Can debugger output be disabled for FirebirdSql.Data.FirebirdClient?

2010-01-07 Thread Josh Williams
I've been developing using the embedded version of FirebirdSql and the .NET client wrapper for a few months now and believe everything with the database to be solid. However, as I'm moving away from the database portion of the program, I'm finding it harder and harder to use the Visual Studio outp

Re: [Firebird-net-provider] Character set problem between with Firebird & .NET provider

2010-01-07 Thread André Knappstein , Controlling
I would second what Jiri wrote. We have been using 8859_1 widely. This works okay with ODBC. Using .net, some things did not work correctly. Or rather they worked correctly but not as we expected :) ISO8859_1 does - for example - not really specify a solution for displaying the Euro symbol (€). W

Re: [Firebird-net-provider] Character set problem between with Firebird & .NET provider

2010-01-07 Thread Jiri Cincura
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 13:45, Louis van Alphen wrote: > What else do I need to do? Are you sure, that your application works in ISO8859_1. For .NET I don't think so. -- Jiri {x2} Cincura (CTO x2develop.com) http://blog.cincura.net/ | http://www.ID3renamer.com --

[Firebird-net-provider] Character set problem between with Firebird & .NET provider

2010-01-07 Thread Louis van Alphen
Hi, I would appreciate it if someone could help. I am I South Africa and is developing an application for use in South Africa, France and Italy. Therefore the application and database has to support the French and Italian special characters. I created the database using IBExpert with a defa