> I am now entering the wonderful world of text blobs in 2.0. The one
> thing I haven't managed to figure out is how to convert from the UFT8
> representation I have in my application to the character set used by
> the blob. My connection is set up to use UTF8 but I am wondering if
> that applies to reading and writing text blob contents via the API.
> I suspect it does not, so I was wondering if there is some mechanism
> built into the API to allow this. Filters or something?

Yes, you can request conversion of character sets using Blob Parameter Buffer,
i.e. last two parameters of isc_create_blob2( ) and isc_open_blob2( ).

Ivan
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