--- In Firebird-Java@yahoogroups.com, Roman Rokytskyy <roman@...> wrote:

>
> Either remove the last line or use
>
> props.put("charSet", "UTF-8");

Ok thanks, will try tomorrow at the office

> >> select (case when status=1 then _UNICODE_FSS 'Yes' else

_UNICODE_FSS

> >> 'No' end) as FlagStr from mytable
> >
> > Unfortunately that did not work...
>
> Same result or an error?

Sorry, I meant it did not fix it... got the same result.