2014-02-11 17:54 GMT+09:00 Dmitry Yemanov <dim...@users.sourceforge.net>:

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>
> 11.02.2014 03:42, Ian Lawrence Barwick wrote:
> >
> > Is the integer value of the column "rdb$character_set_id" from the table
> > "rdb$character_sets" constant between Firebird versions?
> >
> > E.g. will character set "UTF8" always be "4" (and was it 4 in pre-2.5
> versions)?
>
> Yes, these values remain constant. Purely theoretically, some different
> UTF8 incarnation may be introduced with a different ID to replace the
> old one (similar to what happened with UNICODE_FSS -> UTF8), but ID=4
> will still work as "old UTF8".
>

Excellent, that makes things much easier for me. Thanks for the
confirmation!

Regards

Ian Barwick

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