folks i have problems with encodings the scenario is: database: CREATE DATABASE "testLatin" WITH OWNER = owner1 ENCODING = 'LATIN9'; test table: CREATE TABLE test ( nombre varchar(20)) WITH OIDS; ALTER TABLE test OWNER TO marcelo; data: nombre --------- "maricón" "ñañoso pícaro" test statement select * from test where upper(nombre) like 'ÑA%' not data found !!! any ideas? best regards MDC pd: Unicode encoding has same result. ___________________________________________________________ 1GB gratis, Antivirus y Antispam Correo Yahoo!, el mejor correo web del mundo http://correo.yahoo.com.ar