charcter set mismatches

Has anyone out there set up there informix to run with a different character set than the operating system? I have hardware set up with utf-8 since we were initially told by our Linux support person that they did not support iso-8859-1. I think that is incorrect, but it is causing problems with our database displays for non- american english characters on some of our applications. Has anyone else had an issue with this? Can we work with the different set between the database and the server? Thanks! Kate Tomchik [ kate@iiug.org ] www.iiug.org International Informix Users Group Board of Directors A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. Mitch Ratliffe