FreeTDS Development Group

[Philippe PAULEAU <ppauleau AT cartesis.com>]

Well well,

i checked with my DBA about the charset defined on the database server.
It was CP850, so i set client charset to CP850 in freetds.conf
and now i can use protocol 7.0 successfully.

thanks.

So the most important is to reflect the same charset as the one
on the DB server.



> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Lowden, James K [mailto:LowdenJK AT bernstein.com]
> Envoyé : jeudi 3 avril 2003 16:56
> À : 'FreeTDS Development Group'
> Objet : RE: [freetds] Moving from protocol TDS 4.2 to 7.0 -> 
> French char
> acters problem
> 
> 
> > From: Philippe PAULEAU [mailto:ppauleau AT cartesis.com]
> > Sent: April 3, 2003 9:03 AM
> >
> > Using protocol 7.0, the french caracters ( accents, é à ... 
> ) are not
> > handled correctly.
> > I've noticed that 7.0  deals with the special characters in a 
> > different way (due to unicode ... )
> > So i've tried to change client charset to FR ( and other ISO 
> > charsets ) in the config file but nothing works.
> 
> If you place this line in freetds.conf:
> 
>       client charset = ISO-8859-1
> 
> FreeTDS will convert TDS 7.0 strings (encoded in UCS-2), 
> using libiconv.
> There are few issues to keep in mind:
> 
> 1.  Your locale(1) output should indicate that you're configured for
> ISO-8859-1.  
> 2.  FreeTDS converts n[var]char and ntext datatypes, 
> including metadata.  
> 3.  Ordinary char/varchar data are stored on the server in 
> the server's
> (single-byte) character set, and shipped to the client 
> unaltered.  FreeTDS
> will not attempt to convert char/varchar data.   For that reason, the
> server's character set must match the client's.  
> 
> You can check that FreeTDS is converting correctly with "tsql -C" and
> TDSDUMP.  The top of the log file will indicate if libiconv 
> was initialized
> successfully, and what conversions it will perform.  "tsql 
> -C" will show how
> FreeTDS is configured, including whether or not libiconv was 
> linked in.  
> 
> Please tell us how you fare.  This functionality is being 
> actively worked
> on.  
> 
> > For now i only have 2 options:
> >  - switch back to 4.2 which works.
> 
> Because 4.2 works, it sounds like your server and client 
> character sets are
> in order.  
> 
> >  - forget french and use english only
> 
> George Bush might recommend that, but I don't.  :-)
> 
> --jkl
> 
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