--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Dimitry Sibiryakov <sd@...>
wrote:

> This is the source of your problem. Either make your UDF to return
> UTF8 or declare it with proper for French ANSI character set.
>
> SY, SD.

It's not MY UDF. It's one of the standard ones, in FreeUDFLib. So I
can't declare it a different way!