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

>
> skoczian wrote:
> > Oh, sorry, I see that I forgot to say: the fields aren't padded to
> > their declared length, they are padded to 4 times this length (which
> > seems to be normal for UTF8). One character, 3 spaces for a column
> > declared as CHAR(1) CHARACTER SET ASCII.
>
> This has been fixed recently in FlameRobin. You need to build a new
> version from SVN (or use the snapshot binary at sf.net).
>

Will do, thank you. But it's not only FlameRobin. ISQL does the same
and, which is worst from my point of view, kinterbasdb also. That's
why I posted here and not in the FlameRobin list or in the kinterbasdb
group.

Herta