FreeTDS Development Group

["Mark J. Lilback" <mark AT lilback.com>]

At 11:36 AM -0400 8/19/2002, Lowden, James K wrote:
>  >
> >  What about some kind of setting in freetds.conf that enables proper
> >  UTF8 support? Or at the least, a compile flag to enable proper UTF8
> >  handling.
>
> Mark,
>
> Won't
>
>         client charset = UTF-8
>
> in freetds.conf do what you want? 
>
> Or am I missing what you mean by "proper"?  :)

What freddy mentioned -- that UTF8 can be longer than the actual 
number of characters, since some can be converted into 2-3 bytes. 
Brian mentioned that there was possibly a problem with some calling 
programs expecting a certain buffer size, so if that is an issue, I'd 
rather add a flag that lets programs without that problem get UTF8 
without the string being cropped because the buffer isn't long enough.

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