>jes, that 'double-byte' stuff. i still have no clue what that is about, and what it is good for. maybe 1 of these years i'll read up on that.
I didn't use it, but the theory is quite simple:
A byte contains 8 bits, or 8 ones and zeroes. That allows for 256 different combinations - enought for uppercase and lowercase letters, digits, and a few additional symbols - but not quite enough to store Latin + Cyrilic + Chinese + Arabic characters.
Saving each letter or symbol as 2 bytes (16 bits) allows the use of ca. 65,000 different symbols.
The Unicode character set is an example of a double-byte character set (the Java language uses Unicode exclusively, for character strings).
I understand that Visual FoxPro has only incomplete support for double-byte character sets or Unicode.
Hilmar.
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