--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Milan Babuskov <milanb@...>
wrote:

>
> skoczian wrote:
> > But: using ISO8859_1 as database default charset and as

connection

> > charset gives me wrong umlaut characters in ISQL and empty

fields in

> > FlameRobin, if the field contains a non ASCII character.
>
> This looks like a bug. Which version of FlameRobin?
> Please follow up on flamerobin-devel for this...
>

Sorry, I wrote this from memory. Using FlameRobin 0.8.6.1652 on
Gentoo Linux the umlaut characters are quite correct with this
connection charset. Entering them in a query looks a little
confusing, but works also.

ISQL uses the charset of the terminal, right?

> > Using ISO8859_1 as database default charset and UTF8 as

connection

> > charset gives me a FlameRobin warning and I don't know if this

is a

> > dangerous practice or not
>
> It is actually the best way to use it. That warning should be

removed in

> next FR release.
>

Ok, thank you for that advice. How about ISQL, should I use "set
names utf8" there also for databases with default charset ISO8859_1?

Greetings
Herta