> If you're only handling Western European alphabets, you could probably
> use Latin-1 (which has a formal name that eludes me at the moment.)
>

but UTF8 it's just here for that ! :( it's just the implementation in
firebird
that is not good !

> The longer term solution is for the Firebird project to look at its
> data representation and find something that works better with UTF8.
>

yes, at least some options in the database (or in the create statement) to
define the size in byte of 1 UTF8 char

For exemple by default 1 utf8 char = 4 bytes (like it is now) and i can
be able to
customize it to be egual to 1 bytes.


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