> If one wants everyting to be utf8 why not have appropriate attachment?
I agree. Especially in .NET. But people sometimes do crazy combinations. I wish I could drop all charsets and simply use UTF8 only. That would cleanup nice chunks of code. Maybe in couple of years. -- Mgr. Jiří Činčura https://www.tabsoverspaces.com/ Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel