From: "ipai1" <user001@...>

> G'day all...
>
> I have been having fun porting a Delphi application from BDS2006 (no
> unicode) to RAD Studio XE (unicode as default) with the corresponding
> shipped version of IBX.
>
> The Firebird database and client library is version 2.5 but the problem
> also occurs with 2.1. I am thinking it might be an IBX issue, but I
> thought I'd start here.
>
> The field causing the problem is defined as "BLOB SUB_TYPE 1 SEGMENT SIZE
> 80" with ISO8859_1 charset and collation. The corresponding dynamic field
> created in the Delphi dataset is a TMemoField, but when I try to access
> the MemoField.AsString (or MemoField.AsText) property, the string returned
> has a null in every second character. It looks to me like the non-unicode
> charset is being incorrectly treated as unicode.
>
> I have worked around the problem for the moment by processing the string
> to remove every second (null) character, but I'd prefer to get the right
> result in the first place. Has anyone else encountered this problem?
>

IIRC, you must set the character code property of the TIBDatabase explicitly
in order to overcome this problem. I remember seeing a post by Peter Below
in one of the Delphi groups about this problem.

Woody (TMW)