Thank you for the answers. The statement "set names win1252;" solved the
problem.
Walter.

Am Montag, 18. November 2002 07:44 schrieb kfoinfo:

> Hi, Walter,
>
> I am using Firebird 1.0 with WIN1252 also (Borland C++ application in
> german). Everything worked well, but I got the same error message as
> you when I was doing some batch processing with isql (inserting data).
>
> I learnt that the solution was to put
>
> set names win1252;
>
> before the connect statement in the sql script file(s).
>
> Maybe this is helpful to you.
> Regards
>