Unicode Database Upgrade (SQL Financial Accounting 5)

To Do List

1. Backup all the databases.

2. Remove/Uninstall the previous Firebird version installed, ie. 1.5, 2.0, 2.5.

3. Install Firebird 3.0.

4. SQL Financial Accounting 5 (Version: 5.2016.790.737).

5. Check the System Locale in Regional setting.

5.1 Go to Control Panel.

5.2 Look for Regional setting. See screenshot below.

5.3 Click on Administrative tab. Check the Language for non-Unicode programs, eg. English (United States) or Chinese (Simplified, China).

Note:
Please ask the user the following questions:
1."Do you key-in any Chinese characters in the database?". 
2. What type of language input using? 

6. Check Local C drive free spaces. Recommended 25GB free space or more.

Unicode Database Upgrade

1. Execute the SQL Financial Accounting 5 (Version: 5.2016.790.737).

2. Restore the database from the backup file.

3. Login the database restored.

4. Click on Yes to confirm proceed the database upgrade.

5. Choose an appropriate encoding. Select Default - Windows 1252 ANSI if your server current language for non-Unicode programs is "English (United States)".

6. For more info about choosing a correct encoding, see the check list table below.

No.	SQL encoding	Regional setting (non-Unicode language)
1.	Defaul-Windows 1252 ANSI	All English, ie. English (United Kingdom), English (Malaysia), English (Singapore), etc.
2.	Simplified Chinese 简体中文	Chinese Simplified ONLY, ie. Chinese (Simplified, China), Chinese (Simplified, Singapore)
3.	Traditional Chinese 繁体中文	Chinese Traditional ONLY, ie. Chinese (Traditional, Hong Kong SAR), Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)
4.	Firebird NONE character set	NONE encoding (Not recommended)
5.	Database Encoding Diagnosis (For Chinese only	To analyse the encoding (for Chinese character) able to read by your eyes.

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