Kbase P41700: Will the database size double for a DBE?
| Autor |
Progress Software Corporation - Progress |
| Acesso |
Público |
| Publicação |
3/23/2005 |
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Status: Unverified
GOAL:
Will the database size double when converted from a Single byte database to a Double Byte Enabled database?
GOAL:
Does converting a Single byte database to a Double byte database increase the database size?
GOAL:
Will converting a database to Chinese increase the database size?
FIX:
UTF-8 uses 1 byte to describe the code page, and 1 to 2 bytes to display the character. UTF-8 assumes English as the default thus does not require the 1 byte to describe the code page.
When converting a single byte database to double byte the data contained in the database will remain single byte, therefore it will only take a single byte to display. The database will grow when multibyte data is added to the database. Although using the additional bytes to describe a particular letter, number, or punctuation due to the language display differences the database will not grow.
As an example in Chinese the word good can be displayed in one character.