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From: Marshall Spight <mspight_at_dnai.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 04:44:29 GMT
Message-ID: <Abnmb.21781$Fm2.10414@attbi_s04>

"Mike Preece" <michael_at_preece.net> wrote in message news:1b0b566c.0310231443.4ce7517f_at_posting.google.com...
> >
> > Does that mean that all field values are stored as printable character
> > strings?
>
> Yes they are.
> [...]
> Apology not necessary. Thanks anyway - it's like a breath of fresh
> air.
> Char(255) = End of item mark
> Char(254) = Attribute mark
> Char(253) = Value mark
> Char(252) = SubValue mark

Um, doesn't that make internationalization hard? How do you support different character encodings? Unicode?

> PS. Nice post - shot me down and did it without a detectable trace of
> arrogance.

It also bears mentioning that it's an uncommon character trait to be able to concede a point well.

Marshall Received on Fri Oct 24 2003 - 23:44:29 CDT