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  • From: "Thompson, Bill D (London)" <ThompBil AT exchange.uk.ml.com>
  • To: "'TDS Development Group'" <freetds AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: MS SQLServer 2000 and "for xml auto" command
  • Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 10:09:44 +0100


> tds_convert are not only called for converting from data returned to db to
> client data.
> Client can call (indirectly) tds_convert_ntext.

>> Another way of putting the question:
>> Is ntext data being "de-unicoded" and turned into normal text data by
>> process_row() ?
>>

> This is true. But is not the same question...
> I don't like de-unicoding data. Data may lost... as I suggest in a
previous
> mail late conversion is better.
> If I write (in mssql7+) a column name in chinese (well, I don't still know
> chinese..) there is no way to simply extract only this field from table
(for
> example) in our current implementation...

Thanks Freddy,

Points taken. but at least this means I can downgrade the importance of
getting convert_ntext() working and concentrate on the holes that James has
identified...

Bill





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