>> None of your suggestions will work with heterogenous environment.
>> Even
>> if Jaybird defaults to UTF8, all Delphi apps will default to NONE,
>
> Will they?
> ...

Hey, hey, we have the property as well, it is documented. Having a
property and defaulting the property to UTF8 are different things.

Anyway, I suggested to default to config parameter, FB developers
suggested to hardcode UTF8 and increase default pagesize to 8k. Whether
that will be fixed in FB3.0 I do not know...

Roman