Re: [firebird-support] Character sets. (Again.)

2015-04-01 Thread Tim Ward t...@telensa.com [firebird-support]
On 31/03/2015 20:00, Ann Harrison aharri...@ibphoenix.com [firebird-support] wrote: On Mar 30, 2015, at 7:01 AM, Tim Ward t...@telensa.com [firebird-support] firebird-support@yahoogroups.com wrote: Sorry about this, but I really can't work out what's going on here, and could do with some

Re: [firebird-support] Character sets. (Again.)

2015-04-01 Thread Tim Ward t...@telensa.com [firebird-support]
On 31/03/2015 20:24, Mark Rotteveel m...@lawinegevaar.nl [firebird-support] wrote: The problem is mainly that when the connection character set is UTF8, and the field character set is anything other than NONE or OCTETS, the server will return the field as UTF8. The length of a field in UTF8

Re: [firebird-support] Character sets. (Again.)

2015-03-31 Thread Ann Harrison aharri...@ibphoenix.com [firebird-support]
On Mar 30, 2015, at 7:01 AM, Tim Ward t...@telensa.com [firebird-support] firebird-support@yahoogroups.com wrote: Sorry about this, but I really can't work out what's going on here, and could do with some clues. Not so much a clue as a question. If you declare the columns as varchar, do

Re: [firebird-support] Character sets. (Again.)

2015-03-31 Thread Mark Rotteveel m...@lawinegevaar.nl [firebird-support]
On 30-3-2015 13:01, Tim Ward t...@telensa.com [firebird-support] wrote: Sorry about this, but I really can't work out what's going on here, and could do with some clues. The basic problem is that I'm getting string values of columns into PHP padded on the right to four times their correct

[firebird-support] Character sets. (Again.)

2015-03-30 Thread Tim Ward t...@telensa.com [firebird-support]
Sorry about this, but I really can't work out what's going on here, and could do with some clues. The basic problem is that I'm getting string values of columns into PHP padded on the right to four times their correct length. I've tried various combinations of things and got various weird