It was none at the beginning. And when someone enters there characters like
Oo etc., then I get this exception

Riho-Rene Ellermaa
senior programmer
Hansabank

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan Karschti [mailto:fane@...]
> Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 9:21 AM
> To: IBDI@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [IBDI] Charset problem
>
>
> Try Charset=NONE if you use IB6. It worked for me.

>
> > Hi!
> >
> > somehow one of my customers managed to get accented
> characters into a
> field
> > where they shouldn't be (at least I think that).
> > In field VARCHAR(20) I get error
> >
> > ISC ERROR CODE:335544321
> >
> > ISC ERROR MESSAGE:
> > arithmetic exception, numeric overflow, or string truncation
> > Cannot transliterate character between character sets
> >
> > How can I see what this field actually contains? I tried to
> convert the
> > field to datatype
> > VARCHAR(20) Character Set WIN1252 (that's what I use elsewere)
> > but it didn't help.
> >
> >