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Proposal for Firebird 3.0: Ditch the NONE as default charset

July 4, 2012 mariuz Leave a comment

After some hot discussion in Firebird-Java, I want to propose to ditch
the NONE as default character set for newly created databases when no
database charset is specified.
Read the rest of the full thread on Firebird-Devel.

New IBProvider support of 49 code pages

November 9, 2008 Andrew Merkulov Leave a comment

The new IBProvider version:

Support of 49 Firebird and Interbase code pages including UNICODE_FSS, UTF8 and OCTETS binary data. Supported character sets.
Possible provider operation without registration in the system via manifest file.
The article: Example of working with Firebird and Interbase without registering additional components.
Prevention of memory leaks in Firebird client during library unloading.
Specific errors have been fixed.

Read details on: Firebird driver news channel