> I cannot imaging, I am the first user to have problems with this encoding,
> but I cannot find much on the web...

We already have an open Tracker issue for that
http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-694

Created: 17/Sep/03
Status: Open
Votes: 8

So you should go there and vote. The developers take care of
high-voted feature requests.

Regards

Stefan