>>my impression was the other way arround ;-)
>
>Then I'm either misreading your e-mail, or you've switched the examples around?
>
>>When I change the charset in isql to any charset, that is definitly not
>>used in the database I always get the same output from isql. I was
>>expecting that the presentation of the same data (= >varchar with
>>special
>>characters) would change in isql if I switch charset.
>
>What application is show " ö " and what isn't? And is that valid?

Two further questions: Was the field that you imported into defined with ISO8859_1 at the time of import or is this something that has changed later? And how did you import (I don't know if this second question matter, just wondered if you did something very unusual).

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