--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@...> wrote:

> I've been putting together a bit of an FAQ about character set

anomalies with Firebird 2.1 and above. The intention was for it to go
into the Fb 2.1.1 release notes but I didn't get it into a suitable
state in time. Here's what's in it so far:

>

Thanks so much for that!

So if I understand correctly...considering I don't know the character
set of the reviews/synopses we use then I would be best off specifying
the character set of the blob as none and leave it to the client
program to decide how to handle it?

Mark