Ooops...

Read the message four times before posting it, then read it again
and you see the mistakes... Third para I wrote "data set" but
meant "character set".

"Of course if the column is the same as the client, no
transliteration is needed so, provided all clients are on the same
character set, you would never know there was a problem."

Sorry for any added confusion to my already confused jottings.

Eric