Barry,

<< If you read my previous message, then you shouldn't have to use
TWideMemoFields if XE is set to Unicode. Only if you are using an ANSI
environment, do you need to specify "WIde" because with Unicode everything
is be wide by default.

Once you get XE to use Unicode as the default, you really only need to use
the common String or TMemoField because they are already wide.  >>

Not correct.  TStringField,TMemoField=AnsiString no matter what version of
Delphi you're using.  It's done this way so as to not break existing
applications.

Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

<Barry> wrote in message
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> "Jeff Cook" wrote:
>
>var s: string;
> OR
> var s:AnsiString:< ????
>
> Why are you using AnsiString (8 bit characters) when you are using EDB
> Unicode which is 16 bit character? I assume you are using the Unicode
> version of ElevateDb because your collation is  "UNI".
>
Hi Barry

It was just an experiment - just to show everyone in the newsgroup that I
might be ignorant but am prepared to try anything with just the teeniest
chance of working before I post on here.  

As previously posted, I had changed all my BlobTypes to ftWideMemo but
neglected to change change TMemoField to TWideMemoFiled.

Cheers

Jeff

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Jeff Cook
Aspect Systems Ltd
www.aspect.co.nz

Jeff,

>It was just an experiment - just to show everyone in the newsgroup that I
might be ignorant but am prepared to try anything with just the teeniest
chance of working before I post on here.  

As previously posted, I had changed all my BlobTypes to ftWideMemo but
neglected to change change TMemoField to TWideMemoFiled.
<

Yes, Tim is correct. When referencing a Unicode dataset string field it must always be a TWideMemoField or TWideStringField etc..  

But the Delphi string variables are still defined as:

   var CustName: String;   //Use this. Handles both Unicode or ANSI strings and is the default type for strings

even for Unicode because the XE compiler has String defined as:

  Type String = UnicodeString;

So you don't have to worry about declaring string variables as:

   var CustName: WideString;  //Not necessary unless you are using COM
or
   var CustName: UnicodeString;  //Not necessary because this is what String is typed to

I hope I haven't confused you further.  

Barry

<Barry> wrote in message
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>
> I hope I haven't confused you further.  
>
Barry

I have always considered that confusion is a natural state

Cheers

Jeff

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Jeff Cook
Aspect Systems Ltd
www.aspect.co.nz