> What language your vendor is talking in?

Gibberish :-)

Here's their response to my inquiry as to why they are sending eight-bit
ASCII:

"The only thing in that record that MIGHT be getting converted to a 0xC2
is the "broken vertical bar" character, which is an EBCDIC 6A, but text
mode FTP converts correctly to a A6.
The mechanism the file gets to the RST is somewhat different, with the
file being zipped on iSeries and sent to our FTP server. It's possible
the ZIP process is mapping the characters differently.
The client's assertion that ASCII "stops" at 0x7F is roughly 25 years
out of date, as extended 8-bit ASCII has been in common use since 1982
or earlier with the advent of the IBM PC."

-----Original Message-----
From: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Dimitry
Sibiryakov
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 11:42 AM
To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [firebird-support] Extended ASCII character set

> 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?

Character set that match your vendor's one. What language your vendor
is talking in?

SY, SD.

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