Guten Tag Lester Caine les...@lsces.uk [firebird-support], Strings with charset none need only 1 byte per char in the receive buffer of your software UFT-8 will reserve 4 Bytes per char , regardless if it is needed or not , this can cause some problems on larger records
> For 20 odd years I've only ever created databases with a charset of NONE > and because of the way PHP works the odd UTF8 string just works as raw > data. Strange names and address strings just work and there is normally > only a problem when the string was corrupt anyway. > Now I think it's time I started to look at tidying things up, and move > to UTF8 as the default character set. I've various notes across several > versions of FB, but is there a good current crib sheet on how to handle > this? I think I'm simply looking at creating a new empty UTF8 copy of > the database and pumping over from the NONE version? > I'm just trying to decide if it's worth upgrading ibWebAdmin to handle > the transfer so I can play with csv dumps and pick up some other raw > data sources, but are there other tools working with FB3. I'm find a > number of the tools like XMLWizard are being blocked by my ISP but I > think they are the same versions as I downloaded some time ago but which > will not run on my current version of SUSE :( -- Mit freundlichen Grüssen Hannes Streicher mailto:hstreic...@gmx.de
