[freetds] Charset question

James K. Lowden jklowden at freetds.org
Wed Apr 19 21:18:17 EDT 2006


jack brack wrote:
> > The solution should be to do this in freetds.conf:
> > 
> > 	[global] # or servername
> > 		tds version = 5.0
> > 		client charset = ISO-8859-1
> 
> Yes I tried this, but it didn't work. The LANG setting is overriding it.
> Setting LANG to ISO-8859-1, C, iso8859-1, even iso_1 doesn't work
> either. (I thought the client charset in this file was ignored and I was
> meant to use locales.conf?)
> 
> > That should work, but ISTR you tried that and it didn't.

Check your locale(1) documentation.  I don't think that's an appropriate
value for LANG.  You want something like:

	LANG=de_DE.iso88591

--jkl



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