FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>]

By using TDS 4.2, you're identifying yourself to SQL Server 2000 as an old
client, which is why it calls you a "DB-Library" client.  In truth, whether
you use Db-lib or ODBC, you're a TDS client by the time you show up at the
server's door, but you'd never know that from their stupid message.  

What the message is telling you:  Don't send Unicode while you're relying on
TDS 4.2.  If you want Unicode, you want TDS 7.0.  

Can you get what you need done with Ascii, or do you need Unicode?  If you
need Unicode, what exactly is the "problem with ASCII characters with code >
127"?

--jkl

-----Original Message-----
From: nriga AT noc.ntua.gr [mailto:nriga AT noc.ntua.gr]
Sent: June 7, 2001 8:45 AM

I try to access a Database in SQL server 2000 with PHP via FreeTDS.
I use C-libraries. When I try to retrieve a ntext field I get the
following warning

<<Warning: Sybase: Server message: Unicode data in a Unicode-only collation
or ntext data cannot be sent to clients using DB-Library (such as ISQL) or
ODBC version 3.7 or earlier. (severity 16, procedure N/A) >>

I use TDS 4.2. I know that it may work fine with TDS 7.0 but with TDS 7.0
I have problem with ASCII characters with code > 127.