ToUnicode

Description

Converts a character string to a Unicode blob.

Syntax

ToUnicode ( string )

Argument

Description

string

A character string you want to convert to a Unicode blob


Return value

Blob.

Returns a Unicode blob if it succeeds and an empty blob if it fails.

Usage

The ToUnicode function converts an ANSI character string to a Unicode blob. ToUnicode has the same result as Blob(string) and will be obsolete in a future version of PowerBuilder.

Unicode file format

Unicode files sometimes have two extra bytes at the start of the file to indicate that they are Unicode files.

See also

FromAnsi

FromUnicode

ToAnsi