Anderson Farias wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Milan Babuskov"
>> You *don\t* have to have the same character set for entire database!
>> For non-encrypted columns, use the most appropriate charset, for example
>> WIN1252 or ISO8859_1. For encrypted columns, use OCTETS.
>
> But you have to connect to DB specifying a charset (only one), so how that
> work?

Connect with WIN1252. Firebird does the transliteration where needed,
and (IIRC) leaves OCTETS as-it-is, so you simple read it in unchanged
binary form.

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Milan Babuskov
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