FreeTDS Development Group

[Stefanos Karasavvidis <stefos AT multimedia-sa.gr>]

The hole issue about the use of the unicode character types is to work with 
unicode text. This
means that I just need to get correct unicode strings when I call the 
rs.getString() methods.
For example the jdbc-odbc bridge does not return correct Strings, but does a 
16bit to 8 bit
conversion according the Systems code page.

The freeTDS driver does correctly return the Strings even if characters from 
different code
pages are included. And this is the only thing my application cares (you can 
check this if you
have for example a greek character and a german Umlaut). I haven't tried yet 
to update/insert
strings to sql server......

Stefanos



Brian Bruns wrote:

> On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Stefanos Karasavvidis wrote:
>
> > Thanks for this. Indeed the error does not occur when I don't select 
> > ntext fields. There
> > is no problem with nvarchar or nchar fields, so I suppose that only the 
> > ntext fields
> > have this problem.
> nvarchar are automatically converted to varchar and truncated (if necessary)
> when SQL Server is talking TDS 4.2
>
> >
> > My problem is that I have to use these kind of fileds, so I would 
> > appreciate if someone
> > could tell me if there is some schedule to support this.
> >
> It's in the C libs but I can't speak for the JDBC stuff.
>
> > Thanks
> >
> > Stefanos
> >
> > Brian Bruns wrote:
> >
> > > This most likely means that fields of type "ntext" can not be sent to 
> > > clients
> > > using TDS 4.2 (which dblib would be).
> > >
> > > Brian
> > >
> > > On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, Stefanos Karasavvidis wrote:
> > >
> > > > Trying to use the jdbc driver. I've compiled the snapshot from 31st
> > > > March with JDK1.2.2.
> > > > The OS is Windows 2000 and the DBMS SQL Server7 with SP2
> > > >
> > > > My URL is
> > > >
> > > > jdbc:freetds:sqlserver://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/cretantournet
> > > >
> > > > The Statement.executeQuery() throws a SQLException with following
> > > > message
> > > >
> > > > ntext data cannot be sent to clients using DB-Library (such as ISQL) 
> > > > or
> > > > ODBC version 3.7 or earlier.
> > > >
> > > > Can anyone tell me what this means??
> > > >
> > > > Stefanos
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > ======================================================================
> > > > Stefanos Karasavvidis
> > > > Electronics & Computer Engineer
> > > > e-mail : stefos AT multimedia-sa.gr
> > > >
> > > > Multimedia Systems Center S.A.
> > > > Kissamou 178
> > > > 73100 Chania - Crete - Hellas
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> > > >
> > > > Tel : +30 821 88447
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> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > ======================================================================
> > Stefanos Karasavvidis
> > Electronics & Computer Engineer
> > e-mail : stefos AT multimedia-sa.gr
> >
> > Multimedia Systems Center S.A.
> > Kissamou 178
> > 73100 Chania - Crete - Hellas
> > http://www.multimedia-sa.gr
> >
> > Tel : +30 821 88447
> > Fax : +30 821 88427
> >
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Stefanos Karasavvidis
Electronics & Computer Engineer
e-mail : stefos AT multimedia-sa.gr

Multimedia Systems Center S.A.
Kissamou 178
73100 Chania - Crete - Hellas
http://www.multimedia-sa.gr

Tel : +30 821 88447
Fax : +30 821 88427