Hi Roberto,

This is more a question for the firebird-support list, please
join at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/firebird-support/

Also a search for 'Unicode' in the support list's archives
will give a good background on the issues involved.

Some specific answers added:
a) Yes it's slower. Which operations?
b) When you connect with a single-byte charset, the
conversion is done by FB
c) If you use a single byte charset in your app, why
do you wnat to store Unicode?

Regards,
Peter Jacobi

Full quote for context:

"Roberto Della Pasqua" <roberto@...> wrote:

> sorry to bother you,
>
> I like to ask you if FB1.5 is slower when doing operations over a table
> with
> default charset as Unicode_fss (UTF8) against default 1byte charset.
>
> Please: can somebody post a general guideline (small) how to manage
> Unicode
> with FB? For example: we need to convert our single-byte strings to UTF8
> first to insert they into a Unicode_fss table? FB return to us a UTF8
> coded
> dataset when selecting?
>
> Perhaps somebody can explain a example how-to working with a delphi
> application and a unicode_fss FB table?
>
> Really thanks anyway, and kind regards to all the staff for the marvellous
> work (Firebird1.5 is really one of the better database available on the
> market, I teel you this after a deep analisys of tens of DB embedded,
> client-server,etc. further FB1.5 is the fastest and the cheaper: THANKS)
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Roberto

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