Yes.  Obviously, we did not know that these files were being sent to us Unicode.  But, by the nature of your response, I can see that we need to go to the third party and ask them to send them in a different format.




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From: Alan McDonald <alan@...>
To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, May 8, 2009 8:17:10 AM
Subject: RE: [firebird-support] Re: Change Blob Sub_Type

> > > What now?
> >
> > Change encoding to UTF-8 at least.
> >
> > SY, SD.
> >
>
> I have no idea how to do that. Will that have a negative side effect
> on plain text (ASCII) files that also exist in this field?
>

you're storing plain ascii text and these unicode files (text) in the same
field in a table?
Alan




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