Hello again, Salvatore (just answered you in ibobjects@yahoogroups.com).

I can confirm that ISO8859_1 works OK at least with Norwegian characters
(we have three characters not found in the English language). However, we
create an uppercase equivalent column rather than using insensitive
collation. IBO makes this very easy - set one property and your column is
sorted using the uppercased column, but with the proper-cased column displayed.

HTH,
Set

At 14:36 07.02.2003 +0100, you wrote:

>hello all,
>
>I'm starting to work and learn Firebird and I was wondering what could
>be the most suitable character set to use into a database since I have
>to allow insertion of non standard european characters like accented,
>umlauts, etc. I'm currently using Brookstone case insensitive
>collation drivers and I have tried a first experiment with ISO8859_1
>and all seems to work well with non standard characters, case
>insensitive collation and this character set, but I'd like to have a
>confirmation :-)
>
>Regards
>Salvatore
>
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