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  • From: jklowden AT schemamania.org
  • To: FreeTDS Development Group <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [freetds] freebcp patch for charset
  • Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:31:29 -0400

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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