Hamish-
Windows short path names are decidedly NOT for apps that cannot handle Unicode. They were introduced far earlier than that and were intended for programs that could not handle anything but the short 8.3 limits for any given file or folder name. That they often help with avoiding unicode is a side effect. Sound like your misunderstanding of this may be contributing to your frustration. Doug C. ---- On Tue, 03 Oct 2017 23:25:23 -0400 Hamish Moffatt ham...@risingsoftware.com [firebird-support] <firebird-support@yahoogroups.com> wrote ---- On 03/10/17 19:59, Dimitry Sibiryakov s...@ibphoenix.com [firebird-support] wrote: > 03.10.2017 2:25, Hamish Moffatt ham...@risingsoftware.com [firebird-support] wrote: >> Any ideas? > Give up. Firebird does not support unicode characters in database name and path. Only ANSI. > > Thanks for confirming what I figured from the source. But this is exactly what the Windows short path names are for - if your application can't handle Unicode filenames, use the short names. I tried it and it fails. Firebird explicitly converts the short path name back to a long name it can't use?! It seems to mostly work with UTF-8 on linux, or at least I had it working a couple of years back. Hamish
