I don't know, i just try and ASCII seam to accept char > 127 i thing
internally ASCII is based on 8 bits not 7 ...

On 1/8/2012 1:33 AM, Mark Rotteveel wrote:
>
> On 7-1-2012 18:29, Vander Clock Stephane wrote:
> >
> >> 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)
>
> The Firebird character set ASCII allows (or should allow, not sure; see
> the bug that was posted earlier in the thread) only upto 0x7F as ASCII
> is only defined for 0 to 127 (0x00 to 0x7F), so you won't be able to
> store higher order all bytes that are generated by UTF-8 encoding.
>
> --
> Mark Rotteveel
>
>


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