FreeTDS Development Group

[Steve Langasek <vorlon AT netexpress.net>]

On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 06:03:45PM +0100, ZIGLIO Frediano wrote:

> > Well, I think we should be able to get rid of locales.conf 
> > altogether in
> > the long run, and just use libc i18n facilities to figure 
> > everything out
> > from the locale.  I've started work in this direction, but it needs
> > polishing before I'm ready to commit it.

> I think we do not support very well language....

> - language should be send to server at connect time (not supported on 
> TDS7/8)

However, the usual problem is charset, not language (language isn't as
important for error-free operation :).  And telling the server
our charset is less important with TDS7/8, due to UCS2 support.

> - collation is not supported (on either TDS7 and TDS8)

What needs to be done to change this?  I don't understand what
client-side support is required for collation.

> "select * from master.dbo.syscharsets" and "select * from
> master.dbo.syslanguages" can help... 

> I discovered some day ago that language in TDS7/8 must be sended at login
> with local name (not greek but greek written in greek)

Hmm?  I remember seeing it sent *by* the server in the native locale, but
I don't remember having to send it *to* the server this way.

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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