Hi Uwe,

You wrote:

> im still using 8859-1 but am getting some conversion error,
> maybe unrelated to FB.

You must give us more information to look into this.

Also, I consider it easiest, to test charset handling first with ISQL,
and then add one software component after another.

Do you set column character set *and* connection character set?

> What do you mean by "Word's smart quites?

Damned typos! "quotes" like
0x91 0x2018 #LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
0x92 0x2019 #RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
0x93 0x201C #LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK
0x94 0x201D #RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK

Regards,
Peter Jacobi