String vs ustring

agpt · Post by **agpt** » Sun Sep 26, 2010 6:45 am

What is the difference between string and ustring?

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Sun Sep 26, 2010 6:52 am

The "u".

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Sun Sep 26, 2010 6:52 am

Which is short for 'Unicode', btw.

agpt · Post by **agpt** » Sun Sep 26, 2010 7:07 am

chulett wrote:Which is short for 'Unicode', btw.

Thanks Craig. What is this unicode language? is it the one used by OSH script?

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Sun Sep 26, 2010 8:24 am

This should help.

agpt · Post by **agpt** » Sun Sep 26, 2010 9:08 am

chulett wrote:This should help.

Thanks Craig!!!

So it means we define unicode character set only when either we have NLS enabled or data s being transferred between two sources which might have different native character set.

Correct me if I am wrong.

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Sun Sep 26, 2010 2:55 pm

Yes, you're wrong. No product is able to transfer data between two sources which might have different character set (from each other).

Unicode should be used when the data being processed can not be represented in a single-byte character set (and even sometimes when it can be).

More information about Unicode can be had from http://www.unicode.org web site.

Incidentally, the "u" in ustring does not stand for Unicode; it stands for "unsigned".

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Sun Sep 26, 2010 5:48 pm

D'oh! Who knew strings could be signed!