Hi,

> Now, that firebird 2 is finally available (great work btw), I want to
> switch from WIN1252/ISO8859_1 to UTF8 as soon as possible.
> Is there anything I need to check first? Any hitches or gotchas?

Nothing that I know.

> My client software will be Java1.5/1.6 using JayBird 2.1 and Firebird 2.0.

Java 6.0 is not yet supported.

Roman