It is possible. We update the system table RDB$DATABASE:

UPDATE RDB$DATABASE SET RDB$CHARACTER_SET_NAME='UTF8'

Stephan

--- In Firebird-Java@yahoogroups.com, Roman Rokytskyy <roman@...> wrote:
>
> > Could not find provision to create database with default character set as : CREATE DATABASE MyDatabase.fdb user 'SYSDBA' password 'masterkey' DEFAULT CHARACTER SET UTF8;
> >
> > Is it possible to create database with FBManager with UTF8 charset?
>
> No. I did not find any possibility to do this from Java. The only
> possibility is to fork an isql with appropriate command.
>
> Roman
>