FreeTDS Development Group

["James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT speakeasy.org>]

"Dmitry N. Hramtsov" wrote:
> I am using freetds-0.52 and sqsh-1.7 on Debian GNU/Linux (woody).
> I can successfully connect to Sybase 12.5 (on linux) and MS SQL 2000
> 
> When I specify "-J koi8" option to sqsh, nothing happens.  It still
> continue print in unicode with Sybase (and cp1251 with MSSQL).
>
> I know freetds can't convert charsets, but why when I working with Sybase
> it prints unicode?  I think _Sybase_ should (on _server_ side) convert
> characters to client's encoding.

Hi Dmitry, 

Welcome to FreeTDS.  

I'm not sure I understand "when I working with Sybase it prints
unicode".  Last I checked, Sybase doesn't deal with Unicode without
special extensions.  

I don't know how the server is told to convert charcter sets, per the
sqsh documentation.  It may well be that the API is not implemented or
is broken in FreeTDS.  :(

I'm also pretty sure that ascii values >127 won't be passed cleanly by
FreeTDS.  Sorry.  We'd like it to be otherwise.  

You might be able to help with inconv.  Do you know anything about
UTF-8?  Are you trying to store Russian text in a Microsoft server?  If
yes, and you'd be willing to work with us, to test new code and help get
it to work, that would be great.  

Regards, 

--jkl