FreeTDS Development Group

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

At 5:04 PM -0500 3/27/2003, Lowden, James K wrote:
> I'm thinking '-c' could optionally take a charset name instead.  Of people
> interested in freebcp, I'd like to know if you think emulating Sybase's
> choices is important.

At some point, I plan to add support for the cslib functions that 
take a Sybase charset name and convert that to the appropriate 
charset for iconv to use. That way code that works with OpenClient 
will work with FreeTDS (at least for the charsets I'm concerned 
about, mainly the basic ISO-Latin and Unicode ones).

That code would largely be the same as you would need for freebcp to 
support the charset names.

I don't have a need for freebcp, but the code to convert Sybase 
charset names to iconv charset names will be needed for ctlib. I'd 
suggest a different flag to specify the iconv charset name, maybe 
"-c" for a libiconv name and at some later point take a "-q" for the 
sybase name, once we have a mapping made.


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