> a select with the LIKE operator fails if the parameter contains non

ASCII-characters.

>
> the problem was previously reported here:
>
> http://forums.devshed.com/showthread.php?p=425981#post425981
>
> is this fixed? or is here any work-arround?

As far as I know, FB does not fully support unicode strings. Many
string function can only handle ansi-ascii letters only. Same applies
to "number_of_characters != number_of_bytes" issue in unicode
characters, which give a nice side effect on varchar columns.

http://koti.mbnet.fi/akini/ib/
http://koti.mbnet.fi/akini/ib/unicode.html