Re: [Firebird-devel] Default character set for Create Database

[Dmitry Y. <fir...@ya...>]

Bill Oliver wrote:
> 
>> In Firebird, the default character set is ISO8859_1. For example, it's
>> used for the NCHAR datatype. I think we should be consistent here.
>> Changing the implicit NCHAR charset to UTF-8 as well is not a good
>> option as it could affect legacy applications.
> 
> ISQL create database command shows default of NONE with FB2 release:

You're correct, as well as your proposal is perfectly valid. My point 
was that we already have ISO8859_1 used as a default for other things, 
so having different default charsets for a database and a NCHAR column 
looks... well... inconsistent. It was an answer to a UTF-8 counter proposal.


Dmitry