Prior to InterBase v3.3, InterBase defined CHARACTER(n) data as simple 8-bit bytes.
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charsets.h: InterBase numeric codes for character sets.country_codes.h: Defines numeric codes for countries.cs_latin1.h: Mapping tables for Character Set example.ld2.c: Example linkage function between engine and international module.makefile.hp: Makefile for HP (not completed).More information also available at Brookstone Systems The encoding for this document is Character set Windows 1252 (a.k.a Latin 1, or Western European). This document uses international characters for illustration. An example using InterBase 6.0 is included. This paper describes how to create a custom collation or character set driver for InterBase.