FreeTDS Development Group

["Coleman, Dave" <DColeman AT US.TIAuto.com>]

ack, I meant the messages passed to the client *from* the server

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Coleman, Dave 
> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 8:08 AM
> To:   'freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org'
> Subject:      RE: [freetds] How to set locales.conf in spanish
> 
> Thanks, do you know if v0.60 pays enough attention to locale for this to
> make a difference in the error messages passed back to the server?
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:       Steve Langasek [SMTP:vorlon AT netexpress.net]
> > Sent:       Sunday, January 12, 2003 2:25 PM
> > To: TDS Development Group
> > Subject:    Re: [freetds] How to set locales.conf in spanish
> > 
> > On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 06:28:23PM -0500, James K. Lowden wrote:
> > > > I would like to be able to set 'en_MX', 'en_US' and 'sp_MX' after
> the
> > > > creation of the TDS_SOCKET*/LOGIN*/LOCALE* bundle.  Theoretically I
> > > > should be able to set those values before I tds_send_login(...),
> > right?
> > 
> > > If you mean the environment strings, from what I've read, you need to
> > set
> > > those values before your application starts up, if you want portable
> > code.
> > >  Different libc implementations react differently (or not at all) to
> > > changes in the environment once the application starts.  I think I
> read
> > > about that in perl's documentation.  
> > 
> > You can always call setlocale() with a specific locale value, instead of
> > defaulting to the environment settings.  This is portable to all
> > non-broken implementations of setlocale(). :)
> > 
> > -- 
> > Steve Langasek
> > postmodern programmer
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