Hello Stefan,

>> I'm developing an application that needs to store Delphi 2009
>> UnicodeString, would Firebird UTF8 be OK for that?
>
> the new Delphi 2009 UnicodeString type is UTF-16. You can convert that
> to UTF-8 and back without loss. AFAIK Firebird doesn't work with any
> 16-Bit string types, so you'll have to convert everything before
> storing it in the database (or your Client library does it; if it's
> IBO I'm not sure how good it is with that :-(

How does one go about in storing UTF16 in Firebird? So that no conversion
is required?

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
Upscene Productions
http://www.upscene.com

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