FreeTDS Development Group

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

> From: Philippe PAULEAU [mailto:ppauleau AT cartesis.com]
> Sent: April 3, 2003 10:51 AM
>
> i'm using freetds 0.61 and mandrake 9.0 ( ie redhat )
> 
> root /usr/local/freetds/bin #./tsql -S jupiter -U forum
> locale is
> "LC_CTYPE=fr_FR;LC_NUMERIC=fr_FR;LC_TIME=fr_FR;LC_COLLATE=fr_F
> R;LC_MONETARY=
> fr_FR;LC_MESSAGES=fr_FR;LC_PAPER=fr_fr;LC_NAME=fr_fr;LC_ADDRES
> S=fr_fr;LC_TEL
> EPHONE=fr_fr;LC_MEASUREMENT=fr_fr;LC_IDENTIFICATION=fr_fr"
> charset is "ISO-8859-15"

Wow.  

> What is this -C option for tsql and how to debug the
> char conversion ?
> 
> ./tsql: invalid option -- C

Oh, sorry.  -C must have been added after 0.61.  That's OK; it would just
tell you the compile-time options.  

TDSDUMP is your friend here.  The first few lines of the log will tell you
if iconv was successfully initialized.  

If you run a trivial query selecting a few accented characters and post your
log file (be advised it includes your password), we should be able to nail
it down.  

--jkl


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