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When passing 'NONE' as a connection charset, fdb uses as a python codec the one returned by getpreferredencoding() function (see charset_map definition). This depends on current system configuration and is...

This issue is specific to fdb python interface. There is no standard manner of OCTETS use in fdb currently as using it in db = fdb.connect(user='SYSDBA', password='secret', dsn='127.0.0.1:/tmp/test.fdb', charset='OCTETS') simply...

I totally agree. However, such a change would be backwards incompatible and could break existing programs, so I searched for alternatives. I can create a patch or pull request with...

I agree with Mark here. Changing existing behaviour is bad for users. I proposed 'OCTETS' as it was already there, but maybe defining a new character set is better. However,...