Excellent. Then I will just have to work things out in the
application. Since I am using Java for the application code, I should
be able to do this:

query.setString (param, new String
(myString.getBytes("utf-8"),"ISO-8859-1"));

and on the retrieval ...

myString = new String (query.getString(index).getBytes("ISO-8859-1"),
"utf-8");

Do you see any problems with ISO-8859-1 strings with embedded char(0)?

Thanks,

On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 08:37, Paul Beach wrote:
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> 1.5.2 RC5 should be available early next week, if no major issues
> (crash bugs or regressions are found) it will become V.1.5.2
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> > 2. Is the resolution for the bug in computing character lengths
> > multi-byte character sets (UTF8 and east asian character sets in
> > particular) in data planned for install with the 1.5.2 release?
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> > 3. Is the bug surrounding file naming conventions where the OS and the
> > database are using different character sets slated for resolution in the
> > 1.5.2 release?
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> > (2) could be critical for my current Firebird project. Most of the
> > customers are international, so the design uses UTF-8 to minimze
> > internationalization issues. Since many of the users are in China and
> > the Phillipines, even code pages require full MBCS support. If it will
> > not be resolved, then I may be able to devote some time in late January
> > or early February towards its resolution.
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> Currently, a lot of work is being done on INTL handling in FB2 (seperate branch)
> by Adriano. It is planned to pull in his ODS changes and core INTL changes
> into FB2. These core changes will support only the existing v1.5 feature set,
> We can then look at releasing a 2.0Alpha in the very near future. If there
> are major problems with the new INTL stuff then it will get backed out for
> merging at a later date.
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> > (3) is "need to know" only because if it will not be resolved then my
> > application must be able to handle it.
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> Understood. Although my answers were not positive at least it tells you what is
> happening.
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> Paul
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