> OK, now I'm REALLY confused. When I do this SELECT from a SQL
> client, I get one thing when via JayBird, a different answer:
>
> select rdb$character_set_name
> from rdb$database
>
> Returns DOS850 (which is what I expected) from a SQL client. Same
> query via JayBird returns UNICOD_FSS.

Should never happen. Are you sure that you connect to the same database?

Roman