Managed StringElement garbles the .net string assigned to it

[jng]

Create a ODBC provider connection to MSTest.mdb in the GenericRdbms? unit test directory

Execute an IDescribeSchema with:

SchemaName? = "Fdo" ClassNames? = { <any table in that database> }

The execution will fail, and the provider will report the following message:

Unable to find class '<table name>'

The only thing here is that <table name> has been somehow garbled by the provider, and I am assuming it is trying to execute under this garbled name.

For example: 'Cities' gets turned into 'ቈܮties' by the provider.

[jng]

C# source demonstrating the problem

[jng]

In writing the attached sample code, I've discovered that the StringElement? wrapper class is quite possibly the culprit here.

When you feed a .net string to a new StringElement? instance, inspecting the String property (StringElement?.String) returns a garbled version of the original string.

[jng]

Confirmed that this has been resolved in 3.4.1 RC2