Bogdan,

I have put together a page about Character Sets here:

http://www.destructor.de/firebird/charsets.htm

There is also a Zip file with the papers and examples from a talk at
the last Firebird Conference I gave about the same topic:

http://www.destructor.de/talks/fb2006-charsets.zip

This should help you understand the basics and decide which characters
to use and how to apply it to your database.

HTH

Best Regards

Stefan


P.S. Please give your postings a subject - otherwise it's difficult to
follow the thread

> Hi to all

> Till now we've been using Firebird solely in our country (Slovenia).

> We've used win1250 and pxw_slov.

> Now the demand has arrived to install our SW in Russia , Chech Republic,
> Slovakia, Bulgaria and other countries

> and we don't know what character sets and collations are appropriate.

> Is there anyone in this group that encountered this kind of problem and
> could point me in the right direction.

> Thanks in advance

> Bogdan