On May 22, 2007, at 18:46, Brian Paquin wrote: > Modifying freetds.conf to add: What you want to modify - for tsql - is the LANG environment variable. For example, instead of: ./tsql -SPROD -Ujohn -Psmith try: LANG="en_US.UTF-8" ./tsql -SPROD -Ujohn -Psmith That's for utf-8. -- fds