FreeTDS Development Group

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

All, 

For anyone who cares and hasn't seen it, there's a fairly succinct
description of Sybase's character set handling in their International
Developer's Guide at
http://manuals.sybase.com/onlinebooks/group-cn/cng1250e/i_and_l/@Generic__Bo
okView  

Specifically, 
http://manuals.sybase.com/onlinebooks/group-cn/cng1250e/i_and_l/@Generic__Bo
okTextView/3170;pt=3129

In a nutshell, from what I can see, the server converts between several
character sets.  The client's default character set is determined from the
locale environment variables, and ct_bind can be used to coerce other
conversions.  

I found no localization or character set support in the db-lib docs.  

--jkl

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Peppler [mailto:mpeppler AT peppler.org]
Sent: October 16, 2001 10:25 AM
To: TDS Development Group
Subject: [freetds] Re: Charset problem in freetds


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
-- 
Michael Peppler - Data Migrations Inc. - http://www.mbay.net/~mpeppler
mpeppler AT peppler.org - mpeppler AT mbay.net
International Sybase User Group - http://www.isug.com

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