I've moved to a new i7 laptop, Windows 7, Delphi XE Pro, and I'm only going to use only ElevateDB under XE.  I'm going to code primarily for Win 7.  Should I install the unicode version of EDB?

David Puett wrote:

> I've moved to a new i7 laptop, Windows 7, Delphi XE Pro, and I'm only
> going to use only ElevateDB under XE.  I'm going to code primarily
> for Win 7.  Should I install the unicode version of EDB?

Need more input!  
I would say, if starting from scratch or if you need to be
multi-lingual, and if your systems are self contained, go Unicode and
be done with it.  And it's not that hard.

But if you need to interface with old hardware/firmware, use serial
comms or have to interface with 3rd party, ansi-based systems, it gets
more complicated and needs a judgement.

But the future *is* unicode.

Malcolm
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David,

<< I've moved to a new i7 laptop, Windows 7, Delphi XE Pro, and I'm only
going to use only ElevateDB under XE.  I'm going to code primarily for Win
7.  Should I install the unicode version of EDB? >>

Sure, there's no downside to using Unicode unless you will be trying to
convert > #255 characters in the Unicode character set to ANSI, in which
case you need to be careful and use the correct code page, so as to not
corrupt any of the characters during the translation.

--
Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com