When I create a database that uses the WIN1252 character set, what
character set should I use on the client side when connecting? I've
tried using WIN1252 in IBO & IBExpert, but there are problems
retrieving data. When I use the character set 'NONE', 'ASCII'
or 'UNICODE_FSS', it seems to work fine.

Could somebody explain why I could not use the same character set as
the database, or point me to some documents explaining the
differences between the character sets (especially WIN1252 and
ISO8859_1)? And what exactly is the use of the NONE character set?

Thanks in advance.

Ray Mond