Hi Folks,
I've been using FB since its first beta release and have always used
character set none (I am English and didn't need the hassle of
anything else.)

With the advent of FB 2, with the new international engine, and the
talk that FB 3+ is likely to go native unicode, what is the "best"
character set/collation to use for English (UK) for firebird 2? I'm in
the process of migrating an application from firebird 1.5 to 2 and
this could be the best time to do a character set conversion.

Wbat benefits are there to using a character set other than none?

What pitfalls are there?

Regards
Ian Newby