--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Adriano dos Santos
Fernandes <adrianosf@...> wrote:

>
> skoczian wrote:
> > 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-$.
> >
> This is problems of libeditline. You could try putting libreadline

in

> LD_PRELOAD and see it fixes the problems. It may work if FB was

built

> using --with-system-editline.
>

LD_PRELOAD is an environment variable, right so far? Where is it
defined or where should it be defined?

Thank you,
Herta