"Daniel Rail" <daniel@...> wrote in message
news:5.1.0.14.2.20020409083948.00be9138@......

> Comments below:
>
>
> It did crash when I tried Vinicius' bug regarding the usage of UNICODE

on=20

> connection and trying a SELECT * FROM CLIENTS WHERE FIRSTNAME LIKE

'=E7%'=20

> statement. Full discussion about this is on IB-Support.

It's an old problem with unrecognized characters in a given charset but
although I know the cause, I still don't get an answer from Dave.

> I had to shutdown=
> =20
> Windows in order to shutdown Firebird and even then Windows had to

force=20

> Firebird's shutdown the drastic way.

You should be using W9x, then. Actually, on WinNT, I cause FB to hang in a
closed loop and Task Manager kills it in seconds. There almost nothing that
NT cannot kill (some critical drivers and services may be a problem).
However, for what I've seen, W2K again hangs in some cases like W9x.

> This only happens when connecting=20
> with UNICODE character set. Vinicius did say that he needed it to

work,=20

> because he deals with China and I might in the next year or two.

I don't think it will work. The French and Portuguese "C+," doesn't appear
to be a character you can process directly in that way in unicode.

C.
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