Comments on: Everything You Need to Know About InterBase Character Sets http://blogs.teamb.com/craigstuntz/2004/06/29/670/ C# • Entity Framework • Functional Programming • MVC • Web Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:02:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Roland Bengtsson http://blogs.teamb.com/craigstuntz/2004/06/29/670/#comment-17967 Roland Bengtsson Mon, 23 Aug 2010 06:31:18 +0000 http://blogs.teamb.com/craigstuntz/2004/06/29/668/#comment-17967 We use Interbase 2009 with a big database, it is over 25 GB and have the characterset to NONE. I asked this question on StackOverflow with no reply yet, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3543003/how-to-change-characterset-of-an-existing-database-for-interbase Is there really no way to change characterset of an existing database except from create a new one and moving all data ? Regards Roland Bengtsson Attracs Team We use Interbase 2009 with a big database, it is over 25 GB and have the characterset to NONE.
I asked this question on StackOverflow with no reply yet, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3543003/how-to-change-characterset-of-an-existing-database-for-interbase

Is there really no way to change characterset of an existing database except from create a new one and moving all data ?

Regards Roland Bengtsson
Attracs Team

]]> By: Craig Stuntz http://blogs.teamb.com/craigstuntz/2004/06/29/670/#comment-257 Craig Stuntz Fri, 16 Jul 2004 10:27:18 +0000 http://blogs.teamb.com/craigstuntz/2004/06/29/668/#comment-257 If you'd like Borland to add a new character set to InterBase, you need to add a request to QualityCentral: <br> <br><a target="_new" href="http://qc.borland.com">http://qc.borland.com</a> <br> <br>You should make sure your request includes the ISO charset name, and the collations you need. <br> <br>Note that IB 7.1 contains two new character sets useful for Eastern European applications: ISO-8859-2 and KOI8-R, with indictions in the release notes that more charsets will be added in the future. If you’d like Borland to add a new character set to InterBase, you need to add a request to QualityCentral:

http://qc.borland.com

You should make sure your request includes the ISO charset name, and the collations you need.

Note that IB 7.1 contains two new character sets useful for Eastern European applications: ISO-8859-2 and KOI8-R, with indictions in the release notes that more charsets will be added in the future.

]]> By: EL http://blogs.teamb.com/craigstuntz/2004/06/29/670/#comment-256 EL Fri, 16 Jul 2004 09:53:38 +0000 http://blogs.teamb.com/craigstuntz/2004/06/29/668/#comment-256 When Interbase/Firebird will have support for Baltic character set and collation???? <br> <br>P.S. This question I ask allways about 5-6 years... :( NO RESULTS.. It's very bad... When Interbase/Firebird will have support for Baltic character set and collation????

P.S. This question I ask allways about 5-6 years… :( NO RESULTS.. It’s very bad…

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