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  • From: Brian Bruns <camber AT ais.org>
  • To: "'freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org'" <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [freetds] How to set locales.conf in spanish
  • Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 15:59:02 -0500 (EST)

Hmmm....my bad, and what's worse is I know better too!

IIRC the getenv() was used read only and then a sloppy patch was applied
for case sensitivity,

On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Castellano, Nicholas wrote:

> Strings returned by getenv() should not be modified. FreeTDS should
> strdup() first and modify the copy, then free() it later on.
>
> Cheers,
> --nick
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: freetds-admin AT lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:freetds-admin AT lists.ibiblio.org]
> Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 12:50 PM
> To: freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [freetds] How to set locales.conf in spanish
>
>
> On 10 Jan 2003 09:08:10 -0800, Michael Peppler <mpeppler AT peppler.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > > FreeTDS reads the LANG environment variable, and uses it as a key
> > > into locales.conf. It expects a 5-character value in $LANG: 2
> > > (lowercase) for the language, an underscore, and 2 (uppercase) for
> > > the country.
> >
> > I got a weird result when I tried to mix DBD::FreeTDS (with freetds)
> > and DBD::Sybase (with openclient) in the same perl script.
> >
> > If I loaded DBD::Sybase *after* DBD::FreeTDS I got an error from the
> > Sybase locale handler, because suddenly LANG (or LC_ALL) was set to
> > en_us instead of en_US (or at least the Sybase libs thought so).
>
>
> This may be the culprit, in src/tds/locale.c
>
> s = getenv("LANG");
> if (s && strlen(s)) {
> rewind(in);
> for (i = 0; i < strlen(s); i++)
> s[i] = tolower(s[i]);
> tds_read_conf_section(in, s, tds_parse_locale, locale);
> }
>
> Perhaps your OS returns a pointer to the true environment string, not a
> copy?
>
> --jkl
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