title: Firebird CHARACTER SET UTF8 is not defined
body: <p>I am attempting to connect to a firebird database running in windows from a linux client, and when trying to attache the database I get the following error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>  bad parameters on attach or create database, CHARACTER SET UTF8 is not defined
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have googled and searched the answers here but can't seem to find a solution.</p>
  
  <p>Any suggestions on how this can be overcome from the client side, or does it require the databse to be rebuilt with UTF8 support ?</p>
  
  <p>Client-side I am using node-js with the node-firebird module, server side engine version is 2.5, ODS Version is 11.2</p>
  
  <pre><code>function dbConnect(cb){
      fb.attach({
          host: '192.168.42.233',
          database: 'gi',
          user: 'SYSDBA',
          password: 'xxxxx'
      }, function(err, db){
          if (err) console.log(err.message);
          else cb(db);
  
      })
  }
  </code></pre>