At 11:41 AM 2/05/2004 +0000, you wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Is there a big difference between ASCII and ISO8859_1 character set?
>
>My default is set to ISO8859_1, but I've one ASCII column and I'm now
>wondering if I might not just set this ASCII column to ISO8859_1
>
>If I understand it correctly, if I keep using the ASCII table then I
>need to use CAST or the introducer form

Yes, they are quite different. The ISO character sets use ANSI
encoding. But as well as different encoding, they support different
characters, as well. US ASCII doesn't support accented characters, for
example.

/heLen