by the way, could be good to add this feature in gbak, because if the
number of byte per char is the same
it's must be not really hard to do so ... no ?

On 2/1/2012 1:50 AM, Thomas Steinmaurer wrote:
>
> > I'm migrating from Firebird 2.0 to Firebird 2.5 ( both on Debian
> > Linux )
> > My databases were created with default character set NONE.
> > ¿ Is there a way to change this default when restoring ?
>
> No, sorry.
>
> Re-create the database via DDLs with the new character set and then use
> a tool to transfer the data. Depending on the targeted character set
> (especially multi-byte CS), you might run into issues when e.g. longish
> [VAR]CHAR fields are indexed.
>
> --
> With regards,
> Thomas Steinmaurer (^TS^)
> Firebird Technology Evangelist
>
> http://www.upscene.com/
> http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/firebird-foundation/
>
>


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