I'm just confused about the character encoding.
As the
scjd assigment says:
"The character encoding is 8 bit US ASCII."
But when I checked the jdk API, US-ASCII encoding is described as :
"US-ASCII Seven-bit ASCII, a.k.a. ISO646-US, a.k.a. the Basic Latin block of the Unicode character set".
so is it 8 bit or 7 bit?
actually I used the "US-ASCII" to read the db file schema, it's correct. Just confused.
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Another question, assigment says:
"All text values, and all fields (which are text only), contain only 8 bit characters, null terminated if less than the maximum length for the field."
Is it mean all fields' lengths are fixed and "nll"s fill all the rest of the "empty" length. Or, just only one "null" is put at the end of the text and rest length is trimmed?
thanks! hope you can understand my poor English