peter@... schrieb:

> Hi
>
> I've noticed if I create a field with text blobs of ISO8859_1 everything is ok, but I can't use a var char field ?
>
> The text below is the culprit
>
> Vindebækvej
> Hårbølle
>
> Both work fine as text blobs but give character translation errors as Varchars
>
> Is this to be expected ?

No.

Set the character set property of your connection to ISO8859_1, too.
You defined the character set for your columns but when you're
connecting to the database this component has to know which charcter set
to use, too.

Luc.