[freetds] freebcp patch for charset
jklowden at schemamania.org
jklowden at schemamania.org
Mon Jul 20 09:31:29 EDT 2009
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:43:03AM +0200, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> Does this patch seems resonable ??
Yes!
Sybase bcp uses -J, but I think -C might be better. I don't know what "J" would stand for, and your -C works slightly differently.
http://manuals.sybase.com/onlinebooks/group-as/asg1250e/util/@Generic__BookTextView/10086;pt=10086
We need to decide how to handle Sybase servers. TDS 5.0 login packets include the client character set. I think the user should say "-C ISO-8859-1" and we should map that to "iso_1". That way the user provides the same charset name regardless of server type, even though in the TDS 5.0 case it's the server, not libiconv, that performs the conversion.
(Last I checked, we were sending the GNU name for the character set by mistake, not Sybase's name. I don't see a fix for it in ChangeLog.)
> I don't know if proprietary library has an option for this
dbcharsetconv, dbservcharset, dbgetcharset, DBSETLCHARSET. Or did you mean something else?
I see some of these are missing from api_status.doc. I'll fix that.
Regards,
--jkl
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