FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>]

> From: ZIGLIO Frediano [mailto:Frediano.Ziglio AT vodafoneomnitel.it]
> Sent: March 26, 2003 6:32 AM
>
> > I'm trying to make work freetds on a RedHat 8.0 wich
> > uses UTF-8
> 
> It's not necessary to use utf for accents. Latin1 should 
> support all spanish accents.
> (utf8 is a work in progress... is run but it truncate data... 
> not very good)

Aliet is using UTF-8 because that's the standard locale in RH8.  To use
Latin1, he'd have to unwind all the UTF-8 settings (including, I imagine,
rearranging his X fonts and resetting his console and xterm defaults), which
would be supremely unpleasant.  

I think we have to make UTF-8 a priority, because Red Hat has.  

BTW it's possible to use UTF-8 with Sybase, because the server will do the
conversion.  FreeTDS at least won't truncate the buffers, but the
application might be surprised to find fewer characters than bytes.  

--jkl


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