FreeTDS Development Group

[Frediano Ziglio <freddyz77 AT tin.it>]

Il ven, 2003-01-10 alle 18:25, Steve Langasek ha scritto:
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 06:15:33PM +0100, ZIGLIO Frediano wrote:
> > > > - 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.
> 
> > Every 8-byte char column can have different encoding ... (one greek, 
> > another
> > chinese and so on)
> 
> This doesn't explain to me why changes are needed on the client side.
> Isn't it the *server's* job to handle collation?  Or do we each mean
> something different by 'collation'?

sql2k return collation doing no conversion. The client must translate
between charset. I intend collate info attached to all data returned
from sql2k using TDS8. If you return a varchar (not nvarchar) a xvarchar
type is returned (tds8 never return varchar, only large varchar, called
in FreeTDS xvarchar) with collate info and untranslated.

freddy77