Hi,

>Delphi command is: qCustomers.Locate('NAME', Edit1.Text,
> [loCaseInsensitive, loPartialKey])

Locate method will search for a mach on the query component's record buffer.
Never used UIB, but... taking into account it works similar to IBX (and
others) I'd say this has nothing to do with Firebird.

Did you look at the records (eg. using a grid) to see if caracters are
showing up correctly?


Regards,
Anderson Farias