FreeTDS Development Group

["Spyros Ioakim" <sioakim AT atlas.ace-hellas.gr>]

I can't download the latest release because the ibiblio ftp is down at
the moment (yes I'm stupid and I erased the old version I had so I can't
apply patch)
Is there any other alternate download location?

On to the other parts and I will give you more debugging info about tsql
later.

1. iconv --version
iconv (GNU libc) 2.3.2


2. Maybe you haven't realised the complications of a brand new release
like Redhat 9 :-P

make iso-8859-7.bin
g++ -O2 -g -o make_charset make_charset.cpp
make_charset.cpp: In function `int main(int, char**)':
make_charset.cpp:14: `string' undeclared (first use this function)
make_charset.cpp:14: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
for each
   function it appears in.)
make_charset.cpp:14: parse error before `;' token
make_charset.cpp:17: `cin' undeclared (first use this function)
make_charset.cpp:22: `codepoint' undeclared (first use this function)
make_charset.cpp:23: `name' undeclared (first use this function)
make_charset.cpp:28: `cout' undeclared (first use this function)
make: *** [make_charset] Error 1

3. In other news: Yesterday after I had put client charset = ISO-8859-7
in my freetds.conf I noticed that indeed tsql ignored it but php would
not process any scripts that had mssql commands.
I didn't go into detail and see the exact queries but after I commended
out the client charset line everything went back to normal.
Maybe this is another headache for us but maybe it will help you go into
the right direction (?)

Thanks,
Spyros

-----Original Message-----
From: freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of James K. Lowden
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 6:10 AM
To: FreeTDS Development Group
Subject: Re: [freetds] select bug...


On Tue, 13 May 2003 00:38:57 +0300, "Spyros Ioakim" wrote:
> 
> I have added client charset = ISO-8859-7 in freetds.conf and executed
> tsql:
> /usr/local/freetds/bin/tsql -Saceoffice -Usa -I
> /usr/local/freetds/etc/freetds.conf 
> locale is "en_US"
> charset is "ISO-8859-1"

Hi Spyros, 

That's a bit misleading, I'm afraid.  tsql is reporting your locale
information, not what it read from freetds.conf.  BUT: atm libtds will
use
only what's in freetds.conf ignoring your locale settings.  Basically,
it's not all wired up yet.  Welcome to the development cycle.  ;-)

Still, that's the least of the trouble.  The real problems show up in
the
log.    

> Then changed my locale to el_GR:
> 
> /usr/local/freetds/bin/tsql -Saceoffice -Usa
> locale is "el_GR"
> charset is "ISO-8859-7"

Right.  Eventually -- 0.62, that is -- tsql will report what's actually
going to be used, and the libtds will check both your locale and
freetds.conf for client character set preferences.  Right now, you can
get
tsql to report things, but you can't have any effect except through
freetds.conf.  

> The log is full of the following:
> Starting log file for FreeTDS 0.62.dev.20030511
>         on 2003-05-13 00:16:07 with debug level 99.
> iconv to convert client-side data to the "ISO-8859-7" character set
> 00:16:07.741573 tds_iconv_info_init: cannot convert
> "ISO-8859-7"->"UCS-2LE"

Ouch ouch ouch.  What I want to know is, Why the !@#$ Not?  

The error is ambiguous.  I just updated CVS to fix that.  You can use
tonight's tarball, or apply the attached patch.  The patch doesn't *fix*
anything; it just makes the log clearer.  Thta will distinguish between
iconv.c not recognizing the character set -- our bug, easy to fix -- and
some underlying libiconv problem.  

In case it's an iconv issue, here's one way to test your system.  

FreeTDS is relying on your iconv(3) to perform the conversions.  You
never
mentioned, that I can see, what your host OS is, but I rather assumed it
was some flavor of Linux since you were working with PHP.  Let's see
about
your iconv.

1. What does "iconv --version" show?  

        $ iconv --version
        iconv (GNU libiconv 1.8)
        ...

2. If similar, can iconv(1) convert from iso-8859-7 to UCS-2LE? 
        
If "yes", then let's see how iconv works in isolation of freetds.  I've
attached a tarball of a little test system I used.  Please untar it and

        cd iconv; make iso-8859-7.bin

That should yield a binary file of all valid values in the ISO-8859-7
character set.  My system doesn't have Greek fonts installed, but you
should be able to cat the file to your screen and recognize the output.


See if you can reproduce the following with it:

$ hexdump -C iso-8859-7.bin |grep -i f0
000000a0  e6 e7 e8 e9 ea eb ec ed  ee ef f0 f1 f2 f3 f4 f5

Our friend =f0, Greek small letter PI, is at offset 0xAA in this file. 
That's 170 for you landlubbers.  

$ printf "%x\n" $(expr 2 \* `printf "%d\n" 0xaa`)
154

We would expect the UCS-2 equivalent of that character (=03c0) to be at
offset 0x154, because each UCS-2 character is twice as wide as the
corresponding 8859 one.  

$ iconv -f iso-8859-7 -t UCS-2LE iso-8859-7.bin \
        |hexdump  |grep -i 03C0
0000150 03be 03bf 03c0 03c1 03c2 03c3 03c4 03c5
                  ^^^^ how sweet it is.  

Let us know what you find out.  

--jkl