> I will try that but it should take me some time. I would rather have
> a look in the code because my suspicion is that the driver converts
> the PreparedStatement query in the default encoding of JAVA and not
> in the encoding set in FB as it should. (The diagram
> http://www.softways.gr/images/encoding.gif I think depicts the
> situation)

You are right - as I wrote before, all SQL statements are converted
using defaul JVM encoding. All _parameters_ are converted correctly.
Please post your code with PreparedStatement to check if this is the case.

Best regards,
Roman Rokytskyy