At 04:14 AM 12/2/2004, philipttp wrote:

>Can anyone please tell me if there is a way to specify ASCII
>characters by number in the isql utility, so that they will be
>translated to the corresponding characters before being sent to
>Firebird?

Yes, somebody can, and no, there isn't. ISQL is about the
dumbest utility you can imagine. It's got a parser that's
clever enough to recognize a couple of key words like SET,
SHOW, and EXIT. It can run through a set of tokens looking
for a semi-colon and usually ignores semicolons in quoted
strings. It knows how to prepare and describe-bind. That's
about it. The rest it passes to the engine (server,
whatever), unexamined.

Regards,


Ann