Am Samstag, den 25.11.2006, 22:56 -0200 schrieb Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho: > On 11/25/06, Marc Santhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The only task is to read and write two tables (for now), so in principle > > dbase would be nice. But since the program has to become localized to at > > least three or four languages using special chars I'm not really sure > > that it would fit. > > Why would dbase have problem with it? Isn´t dbase type for strings > simply a array of bytes? You could just pass a utf-8 string to it. I´m > sure dbase isn´t doing any kind of string transformation with the date > it receives (or am I wrong?).
I'm not sure either, only want to rule out. But I do remember some problems with programs using utf8 internally and dbase tables. Problems come into sight when accessing the data with ohter programs than my own. When someone changes data from a windows system, he'd have to watch out for encoding flaws. > > I'll look out for it, I remember having heard about an embedded version > > of firebird. Currently my mental upper limit is around 1 MB in size (on > > disk) ... > > You could also try sqlite. According to it´s website: > > Small code footprint: less than 250KiB fully configured or less than > 150KiB with optional features omitted. > > It can´t be statically linked without some effort (because it´s made > on c), but has only one external library to be deployed. Sounds very nice, dynamically linking is okay if the rest fits. And there are several language bindings usable with fpc - I think this is it. Many thanks, Marc _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
