On 2018-07-06 02:07, Hamish Moffatt ham...@risingsoftware.com [firebird-support] wrote: > On 05/07/18 21:06, Mark Rotteveel m...@lawinegevaar.nl > [firebird-support] wrote: > >> On 5-7-2018 09:28, Hamish Moffatt ham...@risingsoftware.com >> [firebird-support] wrote: >> >>> So, what is the impact of removing fbintl? What functionality do I >> lose? >> >> You lose almost all character set support, including UTF-8. > > Right. Meaning ORDER BY character fields as well as functions like > substring(), char_length()? > > In the absence of fbintl does Firebird interpret those fields just as > pure ASCII/Latin1 then?
No, you'll receive an error that the character set has not been found. Falling back to another character set would be a great way to get logical or even physical corruption of data. Mark
