FreeTDS Development Group

["Spyros Ioakim" <sioakim AT ace-hellas.gr>]

I don't think i can help you much with that...
The iso-8859-7 used by the greek language doesn't display at all.
Maybe some of the Russian hackers are able to help you with that
because they are dealing with the same problem.

queries of type "select * from bla where da='(some greek character)'"
brings back 0 rows.


 '?A£š.¥- ."š'¤'£¤'£- AUTOCAD

The text you are seeing above is Greek text that came from a select *.

BTW... everything works ok with freetds=4.2
but you don't get fields>255 as i said before.

Spyros

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Bruns" <camber AT ais.org>
To: "TDS Development Group" <freetds AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 5:11 AM
Subject: [freetds] RE: FreeTDS with MS SQL Server 2000


>
> Ok, let's see what we can do.  Can you be a bit more precise as to how it
> screws up unicode?  The short term fix to get tds 7.0 working was to strip
> unicode of the upper byte (which works for an iso_1 character set). Is
> this what you are seeing?
>
> If you can give a better description of what you're trying to do (PHP,
> perl, C, ?) perhaps it is time to implement some locale support.
>
> Brian
>
> On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Spyros Ioakim wrote:
>
> > Ok guys... I have already brought up the same problem.
> > tds 4.2 isn't capable of fetching large fields (>255) but is capable
> > of working with unicode..
> > tds 7.0 can fetch large fields (>255) but screws up unicode.
> >
> > So what do you do when you need both?
> >
> > casting a text field as memo seems to work but again no unicode.
> >
> > unfortunately i'm only an end user and can't help you fix the bug.
> > but you have all my beta testing support if you need it :-))
> >
> > I'm trying to access an sql 7.0 server via a linux box with php for
> > the record...
> >
> > Spyros
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Cecil Stump" <cecil AT chs.picker.com>
> > To: "TDS Development Group" <freetds AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> > Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 7:00 PM
> > Subject: [freetds] RE: FreeTDS with MS SQL Server 2000
> >
> >
> > > Hi Brian,
> > >
> > > I must retract my earlier statment about unicode being a problem with
> > > freetds 7.0. My original unicode problem was noted with freetds-7.0 on
> > > release 0.50. Since I did not need unicode, and since I thought I
recalled
> > > reading that unicode was still a problem with 7.0, I did not pursue
the
> > > issue after upgrading to release 0.51.
> > >
> > > Revisiting the unicode problem today, with release 0.51, I have
determined
> > > that NVARCHAR[] (unicode) fields appear to be working properly.
> > >
> > > However, I still get a core dump when accessing the Northwind sample
> > > database (included with MS SQL 2000) Employee table with
> > >
> > >  SELECT * FROM Employees
> > >
> > > BUT ... closer investigation shows that is is not the NVARCHAR
datatype,
> > but
> > > the IMAGE[] datatype ( aka TEXT[] ) which is causing my segmentation
fault
> > > core dumps.
> > >
> > > I noted in your response today to Myers Carpenter's post concerning
TEXT[]
> > > fields that you are already aware of this issue.
> > >
> > > If I can be of assistance in gathering more explicit information or
> > testing
> > > hypothesis for you, please drop me a line.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Cecil Stump
> > >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: bounce-freetds-127248 AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
> > > > [mailto:bounce-freetds-127248 AT franklin.oit.unc.edu]On Behalf Of
Brian
> > > > Bruns
> > > > Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 9:16 AM
> > > > To: TDS Development Group
> > > > Subject: [freetds] RE: FreeTDS with MS SQL Server 2000
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Cecil Stump wrote:
> > > >
> > > > There would have been the upgrade to 0.51, ctlib handles null terms
two
> > > > different ways, and we were only handling one case.  Also, if you
want
> > to
> > > > expand on the unicode problem, maybe we can get it fixed.  (I don't
have
> > > > access to SQL Server 2000, so it'll be a lot of blind guesses on my
> > part).
> > > >
> > > > Brian
> > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
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