David,

Many thanks for this work. It is much appreciated.

> TODO: Both the FBDriver and FBWrappingDataSource only expose the user,
> password, and databaseName properties. Although they are not very easy to
> get to at the moment, the FBManagedConnectionFactory/FBConnectionRequestInfo
> can be used to set any supported-by-firebird connection parameters.

So at present the character set property will need to be set using the
FBManagedConnectionFactory/FBConnectionRequestInfo
, I'll try to take a look at this.

Thank-you.

Dave