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

> You could create new BLOB column using NONE charset, set it values and
> drop the problematic column.

In the end I had to update the text in the synopsis field to ansi
using Utf8ToAnsi() and then update it again by casting to none and
back to utf8 again.

THanks again