Then it is most likely not extended ASCII, but one of the ISO-8859-x
charactersets. Also be more specific about what you mean with 'fails'.

Rick Debay wrote:

> We have a vendor that is sending us 8-bit ASCII characters. I tried
> using Firebird's ASCII character set, but it fails on any extended
> character.
> Any suggestions as to what character set I should use?
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