Olaf,

> I have a Database with CharSet ISO8859_1.
> (Tested with: SELECT * from Rdb$database)
> [...]
> Cannot transliterate character between character sets"
> In the IB_Monitor i can see, that the problem is the german
> characters (ü,ö,ä,...), but only in the Field Comments.
> When i change the ü to ue in the field comment, the error
> appear in the next comment with ü,ö,ä,...

> Are german characters in the field comments not allowed?

Of course they are allowed. Is this a Firebird 2.1 or 2.5 database? If
yes, then follow the instructions in
C:\Programme\Firebird21\misc\upgrade\metadata\metadata_charset.txt
and try again.

Regards

Stefan



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Stefan Heymann, Tübingen, Germany