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: exporting metadata and table data for a WIN1252 database will create a CP1252 encoded file, but for the import, a UTF8 file is required (tested with IBExpert)

Symptom: errors in the script import to InterBase

Solution: use iconv to convert the script file to UTF8