[freetds] freebcp patch for charset
Frediano Ziglio
freddy77 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 20 10:01:50 EDT 2009
2009/7/20 <jklowden at schemamania.org>:
> 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.)
>
well... the server version should be used by FreeTDS automatically, if
not we have a bug (but patch apply unchanged)
>> I don't know if proprietary library has an option for this
>
> dbcharsetconv, dbservcharset, dbgetcharset, DBSETLCHARSET. Or did you mean something else?
>
Oh... I means just -J as you told me above.
> I see some of these are missing from api_status.doc. I'll fix that.
>
bye
freddy77
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