Subject Re: [firebird-support] Charset "none" and Unicode_FSS connection
Author Helen Borrie
At 08:41 PM 11/03/2010, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>When connecting with a Delphi 2009 Unicode enabled Firebird
>connectivity set (connection charset becomes unicode_fss), on
>a certain database with no charset defined, I get the infamous
>"cannot transliterate character between character sets" error.
>
>Why can't a character be converted to Unicode?
>
>Anything specific here?

It's the other way round: converting Unicode characters passing from the client to columns of charset NONE. Outside the 7-bit ansi range, in charset NONE there is nothing to transliterate your Unicode characters to.

./heLen