FreeTDS Development Group

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

> From: Brian Bruns [mailto:camber AT ais.org]
> Sent: April 3, 2003 9:11 AM
> 
> Specifically in dblib we need to 
> test dbdatlen(), which i think will be obvious, and 
> dbcollen() which is 
> anybodys guess, and I think this is the important point.

Hi Brian, 

Thanks for the offer.  I'll probably work up a unittest, but being more of a
lazy programmer than an eXtreme Programmer, I'd rather do that toward the
end of my seismic shift.  

UTF-8 issues with Sybase:

1.  Are metadata stored in UTF-8?  Can table/column names contain accented
characters?  If it does, what's the value of column_namelen in
tds_process_col_name()?  
2.  How wide is a varchar(30) column if the Sybase charset is UTF-8?  

If you could poke around with gdb, I'm sure the information would be
valuable.  

Moving, ugh.  

--jkl



> 
> Brian
> 
> On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Mark J. Lilback wrote:
> 
> > At 12:16 PM -0500 4/2/2003, Lowden, James K wrote:
> > >  > From: ZIGLIO Frediano 
> [mailto:Frediano.Ziglio AT vodafoneomnitel.it]
> > >  > Currently my Sybase server (only a test server) is 11.9.2. So
> > >>  it do not
> > >>  support utf8. I think someone can test the behavior of Sybase
> > >>  using utf8 data.
> > >>  - if server is utf8 and return data in iso8859-1 
> (iso_1) how it return
> > >>  column sizes?
> > >>  - if server is iso_1 (reinstallation required?) how it return
> > >>  column sizes?
> > >>  - test unichar and univarchar columns
> > >>  - test longvarbinary TDS type with UTF16 inside (does server
> > >>  use UCS2 or real UTF16?)
> > >
> > >These would be useful and interesting tests.  I'm in the 
> same boat you are
> > >atm with 11.9.2.
> > 
> > I'm running 12.5 on my laptop with utf8 as the native 
> character set. 
> > I'm tied up with another project right now, but if one of you can 
> > send me a test program I can compile and run it.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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