> Considering some of Stefan's and Martijn's comments here and in
> Firebird-support, I'm actually kinda-wondering whether it's widely
> known that you can set up your controls to display locale-specific
> characters....? Look at the Font property: you need to choose a
> font that supports all of the characters you want to display, e.g.
> Lucida Sans Unicode for guess-what, and you select the font's Charset
> property to enable Windows to display something readable.

These issues have been covered in my talk at the last Firebird
Conference. The slides and the demo code (Delphi, IBO, FB2) are here:

http://www.destructor.de/talks/fb2006-charsets.zip

To try it all out you can copy&paste strings from the
"LanguageMix.htm" file in the same zip archive.


Regards

Stefan