Re: Problem with 'weird' characters

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From: Arno Brinkman
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 14:10

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Hi,

> I'm trying to convert foxpro files to an interbase database. Somewhere in
> this process fields from a foxpro table are copied to an interbase table.
>
> Everything is ok as long as I don't specify a character set for the
> interbase DB.
> But when I do assign a character set I get an error ('Cannot transliterate
> character between character sets') when I try to insert a string with
> non-standard characters (for example � (ascii 186))
>
> I'm using TIBQuery.ParamByName('ParamName').AsString = <string>;
>
> How can I solve this? Or perhaps work around it?
> I wouldn't like to have to check every string for those characters before
> assigning them.

Use the same charaterset for connecting as you used for your fields (most the characterset where the
database is created with).

Regards,
Arno

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