I posted this to the wrong list. I was meant to post it to the firebird-devel.

My apologies.

Fidel.

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Fidel Viegas <fidel.viegas@...> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have come across a problem whereby I am unable to write utf-8
> strings to the database. I have created the database using the utf8
> character set, but it does not let me insert strings for French or
> Portuguese language characters. It works if I use only english
> characters.
>
> This was all working on my linux box, but the minute I install it on
> windows xp service pack 2, I get that error.
>
> What may be causing that? I have backed up the database from linux and
> restored it in windows. Since I was having that problem, I decided to
> create a new database just to see if that was the problem, but
> unfortunately the error persisted. I have searched the web, but found
> no answers.
>
> Could someone explain to me what may cause this to happen?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Fidel.
>