Re: INFORMIX and german "umlaut"

zenger@lucy.verwaltung.uni-mainz.de wrote: : Does anybody know about problems with 8-bit Characters, esp. german umlaute : in the following environment: : SE (5.0) : ISQL 4.10.UD1 : 4GL 4.10.UD1 Informix's products (afaik) have been 8-bit clean for ages, (well, I've been using their database to store 8-bit data for a while now - ESQL/C & SE 2.0 upwards). What sort of problems are you seeing? Is it possibly to do with the mapping between your national 7-bit "ascii" character set and the ISO-8859/1 8-bit one? This isn't really an Informix problem; it's to do with the display you're using on your terminals. Chris -- VISIONWARE LTD, 57 Cardigan Lane, LEEDS LS4 2LE, England Tel +44 532 788858. Fax +44 532 304676. Email chrisd@visionware.co.uk ---------- "Visionware: The home of DOS/SQL/UNIX/X integration" ----------