Re: [Firebird-net-provider] Transliteration problem with table locks

[Mark R. <ma...@la...>]

Note that your sending this to the old firebird-net-provider mailing 
list (on source forge) not to the new one (on Google Groups).

On 2018-09-18 20:43, Kjell Rilbe wrote:
> In firebird-devel, Mark Rotteveel pointed out that the .NET provider
> seems to use Encoding.Default for TPB, which is not a good choice,
> considering it's system dependent. I assume TPB want a specific
> encoding, regardless of client platform.
> 
> Please consider replacing with Encoding.UTF8, as indicated in the same
> firebird-devel thread, for all strings in TPB.

It is not that simple: for Firebird 2.5 and earlier, using UTF8 for 
strings in the TPB is incorrect unless the connection character set is 
UTF8.

Mark