Subject RE: [Firebird-Architect] Re: [firebird-support] Writing UTF16 to the database
Author Claudio Valderrama C.
Ivan Prenosil wrote:
>> If anyone can name a language that (s)he would like to store in FB
>> but it is not presented in UCS-2, we can consider using UCS-4.
>
> I think Peter Jacobi mentioned Chinese.

Strange. As I remember, IB/FB supports two flavors of Chinese (big_N and
gb_NNNN) and both have a maximum of two bytes per character. What wouldn't
fit into 2^16 unless we are speaking about very special cases?

C.