Hello ! My problem is that: I developed a small hungarian website with database connections. I have no problem before, because the zope+kidb automatically convert the hungarian characters to from database. (these are: áéíóüöúő - a',e',i',o',u:,o: u',o" - and more...) But I know (because I'm Delphi programmer), the InterBase/FireBird is need the charset for the connection. If it is not same that GDB-s chaset, then IB drop an error: "cannot translit. between character sets, or truncate error", or like this message. Before this point I don't use parameterized queries with hungarian characters, so the problem is not exists for me. But now I need to use it, and the zope (kidb) every time drop this error. The connection string is like that: "192.168.1.17:/mpanni/bha/database/mpanni.gdb sysdba x" I try with this: "192.168.1.17:/mpanni/bha/database/mpanni.gdb sysdba x charset=win1250" but it is not working. How to I set this charset to this database for parameterized queries ? Thanx for every help ! -- Best regards, fowlertrainer mailto:fowlertrainer@anonym.hu