Uwe Grauer wrote:

>> These problems should be addressed by database access layer/library (the
>> real problem is that most database access libraries for Firebird do not
>> do it, or are completely unaware of the whole issue). Try for example
>> with FlameRobin and you should not see any of those problems because
>> there's code in there to translate characters between system and
>> database connection charset and also code that 'cuts' chars and varchars
>> to proper size.
>>
> I tested with flamerobin 0.9.0 against FB 2.0.4 SS and CHAR(1) gives a 4
> byte string buffer in flamrobin. (db charset and connection charset is UTF8)
> Are there newer flamerobin versions which already fixed this?

Yes, 0.9.1. Download from here:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=124340&package_id=251789


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