You might also be having a conversion problem or an bit-ordering
problem. Who knows, maybe it isn't character 0xC2, but 0x43 ;).

A broken vertical bar BTW is 6A in EBCDIC, and 00A6 in Unicode, 6A in
ISO-8859-1

Have you considered UTF-8, because Unicode 00A6 is in UTF-8 C2 A6 (see:
http://www.utf8-chartable.de/ )

Mark

Rick Debay wrote:

>> You might want to refer them
>
> Great minds think alike :-) I've already sent them those links, and am
> waiting for a response. Their iSeries is mapping a broken vertical bar
> to 0xA6 when exporting the file directly which implies an ISO or
> Microsoft (but not original IBM PC) code page, but when compressed on
> the iSeries the zip file contains a 0xC2 and I can't find a code page
> which corresponds to that.
>
> If anyone has a suggestion as to which page they're using I'd be
> grateful. I won't be posting on this anymore, as it's clear that it's
> not a Firebird issue.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Mark Rotteveel
> Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 12:21 PM
> To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [firebird-support] Extended ASCII character set
>
> ASCII has not been changed beyond 128 characters. There is no single
> 'extended ASCII'. You might want to refer them to:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII
> and
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_ASCII

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Mark Rotteveel