FreeTDS Development Group

[ZIGLIO Frediano <Frediano.Ziglio AT vodafoneomnitel.it>]

> >
> > > 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.  
> 

This is not a problem. When Sybase return utf8 lenght are byte length so all
our function run correctly. Problem is if server use (return) single-byte
and we want utf8... in this case libtds convert character to utf8 in a
buffer that hold n characters (supposing n bytes will become n bytes... not
true for utf8). Also I don't know if libtds convert from client character to
server character (I think not or only for unicode). Recently I have added
possibility of convertiong from n to m byte (still unfinished, n must be >=
m, not utf8 case) and start adding conversions for single-byte characters
(not only ucs2).
I think we need a map from unix charset to server (nearest) charset, like
US-ASCII (or any aliases) to iso_1...

freddy77

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