[firebird-support] non us characters in comments fail

2014-04-25 Thread Pekka Paunio
Folowing procedure update fails apparently because comment contains non us character 'ä'. Goes through without 'ä'. Should this be so? Pekka unsuccessful

Re: [firebird-support] non us characters in comments fail

2014-04-25 Thread Mark Rotteveel
On Fri, 25 Apr 2014 07:38:13 +, Pekka Paunio pekka.pau...@newsbrokers.fi wrote: Folowing procedure update fails apparently because comment contains non us character 'ä'. Goes through without 'ä'. Should this be so? What is your Firebird version, and which connection character set do you

RE: [firebird-support] non us characters in comments fail

2014-04-25 Thread Pekka Paunio
Yes, and it is running on Win 7 64 bit. Pekka From: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com [mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Pekka Paunio Sent: 25. huhtikuuta 2014 10:56 To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [firebird-support] non us characters in comments fail

Re: [firebird-support] non us characters in comments fail

2014-04-25 Thread Tim Ward
Yes, I had one of these yesterday - part of a comment had been cut-and-pasted from Word, and contained something that looked like an ASCII minus but was in fact an em-rule. Whether you get a failure or not, and at which point of the process, depends, apparently, on all sorts of things,

RE: [firebird-support] non us characters in comments fail

2014-04-25 Thread Pekka Paunio
. huhtikuuta 2014 11:09 To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [firebird-support] non us characters in comments fail Yes, I had one of these yesterday - part of a comment had been cut-and-pasted from Word, and contained something that looked like an ASCII minus but was in fact an em-rule

Re: [firebird-support] non us characters in comments fail

2014-04-25 Thread Tim Ward
On 25/04/2014 09:14, Pekka Paunio wrote: There seems to be all sorts of annoyances that have to do with character sets. For me it is not necessary to use non us characters but these things take time unnecessarily. There is a Cambridge Computer Science exam question: Explain why even

Re: [firebird-support] non us characters in comments fail

2014-04-25 Thread Martijn Tonies (Upscene Productions)
Hello Tim, Yes, I had one of these yesterday - part of a comment had been cut-and-pasted from Word, and contained something that looked like an ASCII minus but was in fact an em-rule. Whether you get a failure or not, and at which point of the process, depends, apparently, on all sorts of

Re: [firebird-support] non us characters in comments fail

2014-04-25 Thread Tim Ward
I'm using v4.4.5.0. I can't check what others are using as they aren't in the office just right now, but I would expect them to be on the same version. On 25/04/2014 09:23, Martijn Tonies (Upscene Productions) wrote: Hello Tim, Yes, I had one of these yesterday - part of a comment had been

RE: [firebird-support] non us characters in comments fail

2014-04-25 Thread Mark Rotteveel
On Fri, 25 Apr 2014 07:55:35 +, Pekka Paunio pekka.pau...@newsbrokers.fi wrote: Charset is UTF8 and Server version is 2.5.2. Is that your *connection* character set or your *database* character set? Also how are you executing this script? It is very easy for a tool to use the connection

Re: [firebird-support] non us characters in comments fail

2014-04-25 Thread Martijn Tonies (Upscene Productions)
Server, Sybase SQL Anywhere, MySQL, InterBase, NexusDB and Firebird! From: Tim Ward Sent: Friday, April 25, 2014 10:27 AM To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [firebird-support] non us characters in comments fail I'm using v4.4.5.0. I can't check what others are using as they aren't

Re: [firebird-support] non us characters in comments fail

2014-04-25 Thread Tim Ward
SQL Anywhere, MySQL, InterBase, NexusDB and Firebird! From: Tim Ward Sent: Friday, April 25, 2014 10:27 AM To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [firebird-support] non us characters in comments fail I'm using v4.4.5.0. I can't check what others are using as they aren't in the office

RE: [firebird-support] non us characters in comments fail

2014-04-25 Thread Pekka Paunio
: [firebird-support] non us characters in comments fail On Fri, 25 Apr 2014 07:55:35 +, Pekka Paunio pekka.pau...@newsbrokers.fimailto:pekka.pau...@newsbrokers.fi wrote: Charset is UTF8 and Server version is 2.5.2. Is that your *connection* character set or your *database* character set? Also