[freetds] How to set locales.conf in spanish

James K. Lowden jklowden at schemamania.org
Sat Jan 11 22:52:41 EST 2003


On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 21:02:53 -0600, Steve Langasek <vorlon at netexpress.net>
wrote:
> 
> Yes, it seems likely to me that there'll still be a need to map between
> platform-specific charset names and canonical ones.  However, this is
> something that can be done deterministically without bothering the user
> to set up a config file, whereas the mapping between a locale name and a
> charset, even using canonical names, may be different on different
> machines.

Agreed.  For the record, I never intended to try to infer a
language-charset map.  I expected to parse the charset from setlocale(3). 

> However, nl_langinfo(D_T_FMT) looks promising for getting date formats
> into the local standard by default.

Ehm, I'm not sure where we should take that.  For db-lib and ct-lib, we
emulate Sybase's default format by default, if you see what I mean.  

> > Are we reaching agreement?  
> 
> I think so. :)

	:-)

--jkl




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