Hello,

I'm using Firebird 2.1.1 on Gentoo Linux. The system default
character set is UTF8, entering non-ASCII characters in the console
works as expected.

But if I start ISQL I can't enter any non-ASCII characters any more.
They simply aren't shown, and if I enter INSERT or UPDATE statements
with, say, German placenames containing umlaut characters, those
characters won't be in the database. I'm entering "SET NAMES
ISO8859_1" or "SET NAMES UTF8" before connecting to the database (at
the moment I've got databases for each of these two charsets), but
that doesn't help.

Umlaut characters entered in other applications show up correctly.

On my Ubuntu box (with Firebird 2.0.3) I get garbage like this:
M-CM-$.

What's wrong here?

Herta