Michael Fung wrote:

>and FB1.5.
>I created a table with varchar fields of Unicode_FSS charset. I
>managed to read and write unicode text data with the database;
>editing traditional chinese and simplified chinese at the same time
>in one TntEdit control! I used the
>IB_Query.FieldByName('AField').asWideString to retrieve and save the
>Text property of TntEdit.
>
>

I'm restricted to using the TDataSource and TDataSetProvider compatible
TIBOQuery component.
Now I've read that TIB_Query has an AsWideString property I hope it can
be implemented in
TIBOQuery as well. You then could also use the data-aware TNT controls.