[Gambas-user] umlauts and other special characters

[Hans-Martin Böhme]

Hi all,

i have a problem with special characters stored in a MySQL database. I want to 
create a big vCard and import them into KAdressbook. That works fine so far, 
but i have problems with special characters e.g. german 'Ä'.

What i have done so far:
  ..open DB

  'get the orginal characterset from the DB
  DBCHARSET = $hConn.Charset
  ...
  mytmpstr = Conv$(rData!text, DBCHARSET, "UTF-8")
  ...
  'create vCard-like String into MyvCard as String
  ...
  'save the vCard
  File.Save("/home/usr/vcardtest.vcf", MyvCard)


I tried different charsets, but i see no changes in the output-file. Its 
allways wrong and allways wrong with the same characters...

Any help?

Greetings

Hans-Martin