Hi,

I have a customer that is trying to restore one of my databases on his Debian 
box. My database was created on Windows and I sent him a backup file (created 
using gbak) of my database.

When he tries to retore it using gbak, he is getting the following error 
message:
ERROR: COLLATION UNICODE_CI_AI for CHARACTER SET UTF8 is not installed 

So, after some research, I found that ICU libraries version seams to be the 
problem. On my Windows box, the ICU file version I have is version 3.0. On the 
Debian box, the version seams to be 4.4 or 44.

I thought that doing a backup from my Windows box then restore it on the Debian 
box should fix the ICU libraries incompatibility problem but it looks that it 
does not help. We both are also using Firebird 2.5.

So, what is the correct way to get arround that problem?

Should I upgrate my ICU dll's on my Windows box to version 4.4? Is it possible 
to do that anyway?

Or is there a way my customer downgrade to version 3.0?

Thanks in advance. 

Guylain Plante


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