FairCom DB API for C

Unicode Support

Simply storing Unicode data has always been possible with FairCom DB API, provided the application treated the data as binary and performed any necessary translations. In this case, using the stored Unicode data as a segment of an index was difficult since FairCom DB API had no way of knowing how the underlying binary data was encoded: UTF-8. UTF-16, ASCII, etc.

In This Section FairCom DB Unicode UTF-16 Field Types Creating Tables with Unicode Field types Reading UTF-16 Field Data Writing UTF-16 Field Data Creating Key Segments based on Unicode Fields How to Specify a Unicode Key Segment Specifying a Unicode Key Segment with CTSEG_UNCSEG ICU Collation Option Overview Storing UTF-8 Data Converting from Unicode UTF-16 to UTF-8