Didier Gasser-Morlay wrote:

> In PHP I understand there is a specific extension (mbstring) whichs
> deals with multi byte issues.

I've kept clear of that.

> as I understand it, the Ukrainian language (Cyrillic) does not really
> requires multi byte, (but then again I am just brushing the issue).

Which is why I think you will not actually need the full UTF-8 solution, just
a single byte collation that also includes cyrillic characters.

> IF I understand you correctly, you seem to imply that I need to upgrade
> to FB 2. I'll give that a go.

All new work is best on FB2. I'm still running PHP5.1.6, but slowly getting
the legacy stuff off FB1.5 ( and FB1 ;) ) over to current library versions.

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