FreeTDS Development Group

[Michael Peppler <mpeppler AT peppler.org>]

James K. Lowden writes:
 > "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.  

12.x will do UTF8 directly.

Michael
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