Hi

I know very little about Unicode and we have just embarked on a multi
lingual application (oops :) ). Am I right in thinking I can read and
write Unicode strings to the database using the standard .AsString
command (as it uses WideString) ? We are using the TIBO components.

Another slightly of topic question is...

We have to use an existing FB 2 database that does not have a specified
character set. Can we just define a field as VarChar(254) and store 254
Chinese characters in it? Do I need to define the field (say) 4 times
as large to handle multi byte characters? We just want to do this as
simply as possible so any hints / suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks
Rob

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Rob Martin
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