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

Returns

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.

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

See also