--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Dimitry Sibiryakov <sd@...> wrote:

>
> > I am using Firebird-2.5.0.24118-0 on a windows 2003 server and when I try to compile a trigger that contains greek characters in strings i.e between single quotes ('') I get a "Malformed string" error message, no matter of the client program I am using and the compilation fails.
>
> Check that connection charset allows Greek characters. Or, if you
> have it set to NONE - encode your trigger creation script into UTF8.
>
> SY, SD.
>

thank you for answering Dimitri, would you please explain how to "encode your trigger creation script into UTF8." ?

I don't have any problem inserting or reading greek characters from the database, so I presume that the connection does allow Greek characters (WIN 1253), the client software I use is either IBExpert or FlameRobin, and the databese is created with default character set NONE.

Yannis