At 10:41 AM 4/11/2005 +0000, you wrote:

>Just to let you know I did mention the version of Firebird I was
>using in the title.

So it was. :-) Long titles don't show up in my mail summary (Yours
stopped at "unicod") and I didn't look at the header.

>I have managed to get it all working in unicode with very few
>changes. I now have japanese displaying in my system on my english
>uk machine.

That's good.

>Leaving the database completely the same as I inherited it mainly
>with charset NONE in place, I use the TNT controls and the Arial
>Unicode MS font both of which I was already using and the only
>difference I made to the reading and writing of the database was to
>use the WideStringToUTF8String and UTF8StringToWideString from the
>unicode unit from Delphi Fundamentals -
>http://fundementals.sourceforge.net/unicode.html

Sounds useful. Their DNS service is down at the moment but I'll keep your
email in my TI folder and look them up when things ease here a bit.

Thanks for the report.

Helen