David,

> 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)?

I would suggest that, to be sure/positive, you should download a copy of
RC4 and try it for yourself.


Sean