[freetds] Charset question

Frediano Ziglio freddyz77 at tin.it
Sat Apr 15 03:08:38 EDT 2006


Il giorno ven, 14/04/2006 alle 12.27 -0400, James K. Lowden ha scritto:
> jack brack wrote:
> > >> If I run
> > >>  unset LANG
> > >> then the login is attempted with ANSI_X3.4-1968:
> > > ...
> > > IIRC, you're running this under PHP with sybase extensions, using
> > > ct-lib.  I wonder if something in the ct-lib initialization overrides
> > > your settings somehow.  To find out, I'd like to try a few other ways,
> > > to see if we can isolate the module that's insisting on UTF-8.
> > > 
> > > Please use TDSDUMP with:
> > > 
> > > 	tsql
> > > 	bsqldb
> > > 	src/ctlib/unittests/t0001.c
> > 
> > I don't have these installed. I'm using the Ubuntu Dapper, which goes
> > stable in six weeks.
> > 
> > I could install these from source, but then I wouldn't be using the
> > supported package (we chose Ubuntu Dapper because of the 5 year support
> > life).
> 
> So, first things first, we need to know if what's happening on your
> machine is local to your installation or the effect of something in your
> ubuntu distribution.  
> 
> If you would, please install from source and try the above experiments.  I
> suggest you use a weird --prefix option e.g. $(HOME)/tmp/freetds, so you
> can delete it later.  I predict that both the 0.63 release and 0.64rc2
> will not log in as utf-8. (It's always good to have an hypothesis.)  
> 
> Meanwhile, I tried to find the source your package was built from.  Can
> you help me?  I went here:
> 
> http://packages.ubuntulinux.org/dapper/gnome/gda2-freetds
> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/libg/libgda2/libgda2_1.2.2.orig.tar.gz
> 
> but these don't seem to have the FreeTDS sources or a diff (if any).  
> 

http://packages.ubuntulinux.org/dapper/libs/libct3

Mainly debian package. I'm thinking about a merge for debian charset
code before final 0.64... what do you think about ?

freddy77




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