[thelist] Seriously OT: Re: A Question about encoding in .net

[Scott Glasgow]

Have you considered Def Leppard, "Hysteria?"

Hey, I said it was OT.

Cheers,
Scott


VOLKAN ÖZÇELIK wrote:
> After some more investigation: here is -as far as my observations are
> concerned- what happens:
>
> Command object : gets bytes from the page using CP1252-encoding
> but converts it to a CP1254-encoded String.
>
> OTOH
>
> DataReader : gets bytes from the DB using CP1254-encoding but
> converts it to a CP1252-encoded String.
>
> so when I interfere in and do
>
> ResponseString(encoded in CP1254) -> getBytes using 1254 encoding
> -> convert to a CP1252-encoded String ->
>
> then feed the string to the CommandObject, the object works as
> expected because it converts the string back to the original byte
> array (which is 1254-encoded) and then creates a 1254-encoded SQL
> INSERT String to the database as per the command line.
>
> The same argument goes for the DataReader as well:
>
> When I interfere and split what the reader returns down to bytes using
> 1252 encoding, since I know that they are actually bytes of a
> 1254-encoded String, I can properly construct the String back using
> byteArray->toString(1254 encoding)
>
> I cannot find any other reasonalbe explanation other than this to why
> things happen the way they happen?
>
> Really strange,
>
> Have you ever coincideded something similar?
>
> Cheers,
> Volkan