Packaging FreeTDS for Debian
Brian Bruns
camber at umcc.ais.org
Tue Dec 21 13:03:00 EST 1999
Well FreeTDS doesn't support locales at all yet. I'm not really sure what
it entails to add local support. I'd really like to use gettext and such
if I can do it in a way that is API compatible with dblib/ctlib.
Maybe someone with more experience with locales can speak to this.
Brian
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Michael Peppler wrote:
> Brian Bruns writes:
> > The interfaces file stores the IP address and port of the dataserver. It
> > is referenced in src/tds/util.c if you are interested.
> >
> > In order to maintain compatibility with Sybase's OpenClient the SYBASE
> > environment variable is used as a location to look for the interfaces
> > file.
> >
> > I posted a message a few days ago about the search order that is used, but
> > in brief it is: 1) specified in the application 2) $HOME/.interfaces 3)
> > $SYBASE/interfaces
>
> Note that in the normal Sybase OpenClient $SYBASE is also used to find
> the locale information files used for Client Library. I guess that
> freetds doesn't yet support locales in this way though.
>
> Michael
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