FreeTDS Development Group

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

> Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 17:17:23 -0600
> From: Craig Davison <cd AT securityfocus.com>
> 
> After I upgraded to freetds 0.61 from 0.60, I noticed that queries that 
> contained extended ASCII characters would fail.
> 
> Here's an example query that should return an empty rowset if it succeeds:
> 
> select uid from master..sysusers where name = 'Ã'
> 
> The character between the '' is Ã, the capital A tilde character. You can 
> type it with Alt-195 on a PC.
> ...
> Was this never a valid character to have in a query, or was there a bug 
> introduced sometime between freetds 0.60 and 0.61?

It's a valid query.  You can put absolutely anything between single quotes.


FreeTDS is apparently not recognizing your client character set; that would 
cause it to substitute a '?' (no quotes) for the 'Ã'.  Does the log show 
anything suspicious?  

I'll have a look at this over the weekend.  Frediano asked me to repackage 
0.61 with some updates.  I'd like to fix or at least document this 
behavior in 0.61[.1] if I can confirm it.  

We should have a unit test for this....

--jkl


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