For me, if a database object identifier cannot be writen
with standard ASCII (the first standard 128 chars) so
it will NOT be on my DB, whatever it will be a DB Server
or a dBase file collection.

Avoid loads of trouble.

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 10:18:06 +0100, Kjell Rilbe wrote:

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>Svein Erling Tysvær wrote:
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>> To me, Angstrom also sounds more like a name desiring the Swedish
>> character A with two dots above (character no. 28, which sounds more
>> like an 'E' and doesn't quite exist in Norwegian) and not the circled
>> A (Ängström would translate to 'Fieldstream' or something), but I'm no
>> 'Swedish spelling expert'.
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>No, "Angstrom" is the physical unit that equals 10^-10 m = 1/10 nm. It's
>named after a Swedish physicist. It would translate to "Steam-stream"
>("Ång-ström").
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>> -my surname contains a character that doesn't exist in Swedish, hence
>> I must be Norwegian
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>Oh, but the A with two dots above is really the same as the "ae" letter
>in your surname! :-)
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>By the way, Firebird isn't very good with national characters in
>identifiers. Quoted identifiers should support this! They don't. At
>least not in all situations. I hope this will be fixed in future
>versions. (SQL Server handles this excellently.)
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