--- In IBObjects@yahoogroups.com, "Support List" <supportlist@...> wrote:

>
> Patrick,
>
> > > I did a test with a field with the length of 70 -> varchar(70) in the
> > > database and also 70 as the length, which an older IBO version used,
> > when
> > > I added that field to a query.
> > >
> > > With the build 9 I can type in 70 characters only, which is ok. I did it
> > > with cyrillic characters to make sure it's unicode, what I type it.
> > >
> > > I then removed that field from the query and added it again. The new
> > > length is 70*4=280. I can type in 280 characters now, but once I'm
> > posting
> > > the query, I get an error:
> > >
> > > ISC ERROR MESSAGE:
> > > arithmetic exception, numeric overflow, or string truncation
> > >
> > > So it looks as if the lengths should remain how they were / are in the
> > > database.
> >
> > I'll take a closer look at things and see if I can spot the problem.
>
> I found some areas that were problematic and have resolved them.
>
> #1: It was using the byte length instead of character length for
> TField.Size.
>
> #2: TIBOWideStringField was not a registered TField.
>
> This will be fixed in the next release (build 11).
>
> Thanks,
> Jason LeRoy Wharton
> www.ibobjects.com
>

It works fine now.
Thanks Jason.