FreeTDS Development Group

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

At 8:59 PM +0100 3/5/2003, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> Today Bill patch should implement it.

Just for RPC commands, not language commands. There is some hacked 
code for dynamic commands, which from looking at it, doesn't work.


> You program under Mac OS ?!?

Yes. I ported FreeTDS to Mac OS 8/9 a few years ago, though I haven't 
updated that port since Mac OS X was released. Mac OS X is basically 
BSD unix on top of a Mach kernel, with a few other changes that 
complicate things at times.

> What's RB_SOCKETS define? I'm merging code you send me a month ago...
> very difficult but is much smaller now.

They used the code I sent you to support RealBasic, which is similar 
to VisualBasic but runs on the Mac. I'd ignore any code using that.

> Where can I found documentation for Mac OS X charsets handling ?

I'm currently using a static version of iconv that I compiled. The 
system doesn't include iconv, unfortunately.

Most developers use CFStrings, which abstract a string and handle all 
encoding issues. Documentation for that is at 
<http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/CoreFoundation/ProgrammingTopics/CFStrings/index.html>.

For basic conversion, you'd use some of the managers under Text and 
Other International Services at 
<http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Carbon/carbon.html>. The 
major ones being Text Encoding Conversion Manager and Unicode 
Utilities.

Ideally, I'd like to write a version of iconv for Mac OS X that uses 
the Text Encoding Converter. But on the massive list of priorities, 
that's bumped down quite a bit since I got iconv working (though 
iconv is way too large to be distributing with my application).

Talking about it has me itching to do it again, but the big problem 
is translating the encoding names.

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