> I think you're talking about raw UTF-8 bytes; as other have
> suggested, you should be using CHARACTER SET OCTETS. Which
> means no characters, just bytes (octets).
>

yes sorry i m confuse about character, code point or raw UTF8 byte...
actually i prefere to use ASCII instead of OCTECTS because ASCII feet
better to store ASCII char (that what is RAW UTF8 char)

> > where you see that some bytes are forbidden in ISO8859_1 ?
> > firebird never complain about it !
>
> Then it could be said this is a bug, like here:
>
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/firebird-support/message/112680
> http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-3416
>
> --
> Michael Ludwig
>
>

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