FreeTDS Development Group

[Steve Langasek <vorlon AT netexpress.net>]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 07:55:45PM -0500, Brian Bruns wrote:

> I guess I'll weigh in here.  I believe we chose the current date format to 
> avoid problems with internationalization.  We probably should support some 
> other formats as well in some form.  I have no real desire to introduce 
> another file ala locales.dat.  The freetds.conf section should be flexible 
> enough to handle this.  Perhaps a [locales] section? Or should time be 
> stipulated per server?

My only objection to using a [locales] section in freetds.conf is that 
this means one more name that's unavailable for use as a server name. 
But I definitely believe this belongs as a per-locale setting rather 
than as a per-server setting, with provisions for an application 
override; character set, date format, language, etc. are all 
traditionally seen as functions of the locale configuration in Unixland, 
and I think it's useful to extend this structure to FreeTDS's handling 
of those variables.

Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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