FreeTDS Development Group

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

At 5:11 AM -0400 8/30/2002, Brian Bruns wrote:
> I think UTF-8 is the way forward on this.  The basic problem is what do
> the unix apps support?  It sure isn't UCS-2.  If they support unicode
> at all it's utf-8 and ucs-2 to utf-8 can be done losslessly.  And then
> there are crippled clients that need single byte char sets, I can't see
> removing this for some years to come.

The Sybase libraries don't seem to worry about clients that need 
single byte char sets if the encoding is set to be utf8. And I doubt 
those applications explicitly set the charset to anything, so they 
would break if I set my default charset to use utf8.

In in the worst case, I'd say add a setting to freetds.conf that 
specifies if utf8 should be used internally, defaulting to true. Then 
those crippled clients could set that to false (since they'll have to 
setup a freetds.conf anyway).

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