At 08:43 PM 26/02/2008, you wrote:

>I am experiencing some difficulty updating the metadata to FB2.1.
>
>My DB has two tables with associated descriptions containing the
>pound sign £, and some triggers that have embedded comments
>containing non-ASCII letters.
>
>I attempted to use the suggested metadata upgrade process and here's
>my findings.

Please take this to firebird-devel. It is clearly explained in the release notes and in the list rules that problems with unreleased Firebird versions are not welcome in this list.

^heLen