--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "William Gonzáles S."
<wgonzaless@y...> wrote:

>
> Hello. Can I use FireBird 2.0 instead 1.5? I have a
> program that works with spanish chars and UNICODE, I
> had problems with them and somebody advice me (in this
> group) to use FB 2.0.

Did they advise you to use FB 2.0, or did they ask you to check
whether the problem still exists in FB 2.0? Getting unicode working
properly is one of the aims of FB 2, so it may have been more of a
good test case to have.

FB 2.0 is beta, only a month or so out of alpha. It still has however
many betas and the whole release candidate phase to go through before
it is considered stable. It is still possible that the on disk format
of the database will change before the final release, and your
database may become unreadable. There may also exist bugs that corrupt
your database to the point where no recovery is possible.

There are work arounds to most if not all of the charset problems in
1.5, others could possible give some advice on this point.

> Is FB 2 stable in order to user in a final
> application?

No.

It is only there so you can test your application against it and
report any issues back to the developers, so they can get fixed before
the final release.

Adam