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.

Well, the error is raised on retrieval of data :-)

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
Upscene Productions
http://www.upscene.com

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