diff --git a/index.d.ts b/index.d.ts
index 2e626cc..99b8800 100644
--- a/index.d.ts
+++ b/index.d.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 // Project: node-firebird
 // Definitions by: Marco Warm <https://github.com/MarcusCalidus>
 
-declare module 'node-firebird' {
+declare module 'node-firebird-dev' {
     type DatabaseCallback = (err: any, db: Database) => void;
 
     type TransactionCallback = (err: Options, transaction: Transaction) => void;
diff --git a/lib/index.js b/lib/index.js
index bd2078d..ee5cd87 100644
--- a/lib/index.js
+++ b/lib/index.js
@@ -796,7 +796,7 @@ exports.escape = function(value) {
 };
 
 const
-    DEFAULT_ENCODING = 'utf8',
+    DEFAULT_ENCODING = 'latin1',
     DEFAULT_FETCHSIZE = 200;
 
 const
@@ -3733,7 +3733,7 @@ Connection.prototype.attach = function (options, callback, db) {
     blr.pos = 0;
 
     blr.addByte(1);
-    blr.addString(isc_dpb_lc_ctype, 'UTF8', DEFAULT_ENCODING);
+    blr.addString(isc_dpb_lc_ctype, 'ISO8859_1', DEFAULT_ENCODING);
     blr.addString(isc_dpb_user_name, user, DEFAULT_ENCODING);
     blr.addString(isc_dpb_password, password, DEFAULT_ENCODING);
 
@@ -3812,8 +3812,8 @@ Connection.prototype.createDatabase = function (options, callback) {
 
     blr.pos = 0;
     blr.addByte(1);
-    blr.addString(isc_dpb_set_db_charset, 'UTF8', DEFAULT_ENCODING);
-    blr.addString(isc_dpb_lc_ctype, 'UTF8', DEFAULT_ENCODING);
+    blr.addString(isc_dpb_set_db_charset, 'ISO8859_1', DEFAULT_ENCODING);
+    blr.addString(isc_dpb_lc_ctype, 'ISO8859_1', DEFAULT_ENCODING);
     blr.addString(isc_dpb_user_name, user, DEFAULT_ENCODING);
     blr.addString(isc_dpb_password, password, DEFAULT_ENCODING);
 
@@ -4520,7 +4520,7 @@ Connection.prototype.svcattach = function (options, callback, svc) {
     blr.pos = 0;
 
     blr.addBytes([isc_dpb_version2, isc_dpb_version2]);
-    blr.addString(isc_dpb_lc_ctype, 'UTF8', DEFAULT_ENCODING);
+    blr.addString(isc_dpb_lc_ctype, 'ISO8859_1', DEFAULT_ENCODING);
     blr.addString(isc_dpb_user_name, user, DEFAULT_ENCODING);
     blr.addString(isc_dpb_password, password, DEFAULT_ENCODING);
     blr.addByte(isc_dpb_dummy_packet_interval);
@@ -4636,7 +4636,7 @@ Connection.prototype.queEvents = function(events, eventid, callback) {
     // prepare EPB
     blr.addByte(EPB_version1);
     for (var event in events) {
-        var event_buffer = new Buffer(event, 'UTF8');
+        var event_buffer = new Buffer(event, 'ISO8859_1');
         blr.addByte(event_buffer.length);
         blr.addBytes(event_buffer);
         blr.addInt32(events[event]);