--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@t...>
wrote:

> At 03:38 PM 24/10/2003 +0200, you wrote:
> >At 11:30 PM 24/10/2003 +1000, you wrote:
> >
> > >unsuccessful metadata update
> > >STORE RDB$RELATION_FIELDS failed
> > >arithmetic exception, numeric overflow, or string truncation
> > >Cannot transliterate character between character sets
> > >
> > >But it's just struck me to wonder how you *do* define data from a

Cyrillic

> > >keyboard. You do it every day, and you say that you were able to

define

> > >your view. I'm very curious...
> > >
> > >heLen
> >
> >Maybe you need to set the location - regional settings, Helen? Or

the UNIX

> >Locale setting?
>
> Oh, sure..
> but, what I mean is, on a Cyrillic keyboard, how could you type
> "Select id, name from person" ? (and I know they do!!)
>
> heLen

I do like this

select table."rusian_word1", table."rusian_word2" from table where
table."rusian_word3" = 'another_russian_word'