Dear Jonathan Neve

Thank you for your valuable reply.and advice.
I too have met success with Tnt controls. They are great indeed.
So far I'm using MS Access, Since this Access is notorious and unpredictable
I want to change my db engine. That is how my search came to FB. So far I
have had only good news about FB and I want to explore more.
As you said IBeasy may be the problem. Do you know any other front-end for
FB which allows Unicode data entry (like MS Access)? If not, one has to
develop their own data entry sheet through Delphi using Tnt, isn't?
Please advice me.
Sorry that I'm very late for your prompt mail. Together with it I have
received hundred of mails which are not up to my problem. That is I why I
lost lot of time.
Thanking once more and hope we will have more mails in future
Love and regards
-hussain

On 12/9/05, Jonathan Neve <jonathan@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Hussian,
>
> Hussain KH wrote:
>
> >I have developed a database of books (Bibliographic db) using MS Access
> in
> >Malayalam (My mother tongue, an Indic language). Since Malaylam is
> embedded
> >in Widows XP (SP2) all MS Office programs are capable of handling
> Malayalam
> >OTF fonts. The Book database in Access is functioning well with Malayalam
>
> >script.
> >
> >Then I heard about the Firebird, downloaded and installed it
> successfully.
> >Using IBeasy+ I designed a test database with two fields (Author and
> Title)
> >which are Character and Unicode_FSS.
> >
> >Data entry using English language is OK and records are created. But when
> >I'm attempting to enter the data after switching over to Malayalam only
> >?????? are entered instead of Malayalam script.
> >
> >I'm using windows XP with Service Pack2. I have installed Firebird
> >1.5.3SuperServer.
> >
> >Is Firebird Unicode Compliant? What should I do to configure my database
> in
> >order to enter and later process data using Malayalam (or any other Indic
>
> >scripts)?
> >
> >
> Yes, FireBird supports Unicode. Your problem probably comes from the
> program you're using to display the data (i.e. IBEasy) rather than from
> FireBird itself.
>
> I suppose you're developping an application that displays and
> manipulates the information in the database? If so, what environment are
> you using. If by any chance you're using Delphi, I would recommend you
> have a look at Tnt Unicode controls, which I have had a lot of success
> with. I can't give you advice for other enviroments though.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Jonathan Neve
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