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Miscellaneous Enhancements

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Character Sets
New ISQL Features
External Functions (UDFs)

This chapter contains a number of enhancements to utilities, character sets and external functions (UDFs).

Character Sets

V. 1.5
V. 1.5 (Binary Collations only)
V. 1.0.x

New character sets, collations and changes in this release are listed below. V. 1.0 additions are included for the reader's convenience.

V. 1.5

Various Contributors

WIN1251_UA collation: Added WIN1251_UA collation (for both Russian and Ukrainian languages) for WIN1251 character set.
WIN1251 Uppercasing: Corrected default uppercasing for WIN1251
Hungarian Collation: Added ISO_HUN (for Hungarian language) for ISO8859_2 character set

V. 1.5 (Binary Collations only)

Blas Rodrigues Somoza

DOS737 PC: Greek
DOS775 PC: Baltic
DOS858: Variant of Cp850 with Euro character (€)
DOS862: PC Hebrew
DOS864: PC Arabic
DOS866: MS-DOS Russian
DOS869: IBM Modern Greek
WIN1255: Windows Hebrew
WIN1256: Windows Arabic
WIN1257: Windows Baltic
ISO8859_3: Latin 3 (Esperanto, Maltese, Pinyi, Sami, Croatian and others)
ISO8859_4: Latin 4 (Baltic, Greenlandic, Lappish)
ISO8859_5: Cyrillic
ISO8859_6: Arabic
ISO8859_7: Greek
ISO8859_8: Hebrew
ISO8859_9: Turkish
ISO8859_13: Baltic

V. 1.0.x

Various Contributors

Hungarian: Added case insensitive Hungarian collation set (Sandor Szollosi)
ISO8859-2: Firebird now supports character set ISO8859-2 (for Czech language).

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