I guess the database is encoded in UTF-16 and you are reading the text
using sqlite3_column_blob instead of sqlite3_column_text.
F.
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Daniel Spain <dspai...@msn.com> wrote:
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> hello all i am creating a text mud gamibng engine and has been going great up
> until recently.when a user is examining their current room all the text is
> double spaced.i have tried this as both a blob and text field with a max
> length of 4096. here is my funtion to display long room descriptions: GBOOL
> EXPORTlook(VOID)/* examine current room */{ if(islit(chrptr->loc))
> { prfmlt(LOKOTH,chrptr->name);
> outloc(getloc(usrnum),usrnum,-1);
> prfmlt(LOOKING,database_blob("Rooms",chrptr->loc,ROOMKEY_LONGDESC));
> outmlt(usrnum); } else { prfmlt(TOODRK);
> outmlt(usrnum); } return(TRUE);} here is the database_blob
> function: CHAR * EXPORTdatabase_blob(const CHAR *table,const LONG
> record,const LONG field)/* return blob field value from a table */{ const
> CHAR *tail; static CHAR ret[4096]; strcpy(ret,"NULL");
> sprintf(vdatmp,"SELECT * FROM %s WHERE Record = %ld",table,record)
> ;
> if(sqlite3_prepare_v2(database,vdatmp,strlen(vdatmp),&statement,&tail)==SQLITE_OK)
> { while(sqlite3_step(statement) == SQLITE_ROW) {
> strncpy(ret,sqlite3_column_blob(statement,field),4096); } }
> return(ret);} it all works fine it just double spaces the returned
> text.some of my beta testers stripped all the periods from the text and
> saidit worked fine so i don't know if the periods are somehow sayingmove to
> the next line or what. thanks.
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