My question is this: In what instances would the number of characters returned by those functions be different than the number of bytes returned?

Rick Cook
Remedy Consultant
Herrick Douglass Technology Development

Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Cook [mailto:rcook@HDTD.COM]
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I was reading through the release notes for ARS 4.5.2, and found something I have a question on. One fixed bug said: In LEFT, LENGTH, LOWER, LPAD, RIGHT, and SUBSTR, replace “characters” with “bytes.”.

My question is this: In what instances would the number of characters returned by those functions be different than the number of bytes returned?

Rick Cook
Remedy Consultant
Herrick Douglass Technology Development

I think Japanese (Kanji) and other languages need 2 bytes per character.

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Cook [mailto:rcook@HDTD.COM]
Sent: March 05, 2001 12:35 PM
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Subject: 4.5.2 function question



I was reading through the release notes for ARS 4.5.2, and found something I have a question on. One fixed bug said: In LEFT, LENGTH, LOWER, LPAD, RIGHT, and SUBSTR, replace “characters” with “bytes.”.

My question is this: In what instances would the number of characters returned by those functions be different than the number of bytes returned?

Rick Cook
Remedy Consultant
Herrick Douglass Technology Development

Rick Cook
Remedy Consultant
Herrick Douglass Technology Development

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From: Russell, Wendell S (Scott) [mailto:RusseWS@LOUISVILLE.STORTEK.COM]
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It say this will require a change for "double-byte languages". My guess is some of the newer character sets support double-bytes to display more characters for other languages (i.e. Chinese - I guess). I do not know for sure what character sets or languages.

Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Cook [mailto:rcook@HDTD.COM]
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 1:35 PM
To: ARSLIST@LISTSERV.VISTAIT.COM
Subject: 4.5.2 function question



I was reading through the release notes for ARS 4.5.2, and found something I have a question on. One fixed bug said: In LEFT, LENGTH, LOWER, LPAD, RIGHT, and SUBSTR, replace “characters” with “bytes.”.

My question is this: In what instances would the number of characters returned by those functions be different than the number of bytes returned?

Rick Cook
Remedy Consultant
Herrick Douglass Technology Development

Chinese ideographic characters are indeed a dual-byte set, Kanji is as well as others. The actual conversion is another issue.
Remedy is not currently native in Chinese, but this may change with the release of Futurama.

Regards...Gidd

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Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 12:58 PM
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Rick,

I think Japanese (Kanji) and other languages need 2 bytes per character.

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Cook [mailto:rcook@HDTD.COM]
Sent: March 05, 2001 12:35 PM
To: ARSLIST@LISTSERV.VISTAIT.COM
Subject: 4.5.2 function question



I was reading through the release notes for ARS 4.5.2, and found something I have a question on. One fixed bug said: In LEFT, LENGTH, LOWER, LPAD, RIGHT, and SUBSTR, replace “characters” with “bytes.”.

My question is this: In what instances would the number of characters returned by those functions be different than the number of bytes returned?

Rick Cook
Remedy Consultant
Herrick Douglass Technology Development