Hello Tim,

>Yes, I had one of these yesterday - part of a comment had been
>cut-and-pasted from Word, and contained something that looked like an
>ASCII minus but was in fact an em-rule.
>
>Whether you get a failure or not, and at which point of the process,
>depends, apparently, on all sorts of things, including in particular the
>connection character set. In our case the procedure had been stored in
>the database OK, and the application ran OK, but developers couldn't
>extract metadata from the database using Database Workbench or (to a
>more limited extent) FlameRobin.

Are you still experiencing this issue with recent versions of Database
Workbench?

With regards,

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

-- 
Tim Ward