My post needs some clarification: 'Extended ASCII' in itself does not
exist. There is ASCII which defines the first 128 characters (7 bits).
Different companies in the 80s have defined several extensions to the
ASCII characterset, usually known as codepages or charactersets.

If the first 128 characters are ASCII, this collection of codepages is
usually referred to as extended ASCII.

To get this into Firebird you will need to know the exact characterset
or codepage (eg cp437, cp850, ISO-8859-1 etc).

Mark

Mark Rotteveel wrote:

> 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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Mark Rotteveel