Delphi dbExpress and Interbase: UTF8 migration steps and risks?

Question

Currently, our database uses Win1252 as the only character encoding. We will have to support Unicode in the database tables soon, which means we have to perform this migrati

Answer 1

Problem: CHAR fields no longer work and have to be replaced with VARCHAR.

Symptom: SELECT queries on a column which now uses UTF8 and is imported from WIN1252 with ASCII values no longer returns any value. Maybe this is a bug which I should report in QC.

Solution: replace all occurences of CHAR( in the database metadata DDL script with VARCHAR(