FreeTDS Development Group

["James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT schemamania.org>]

On Thu, 15 May 2003 14:39:19 +0800, "Varley, David (CBorn at Alcoa)"
<David.Varley AT alcoa.com.au> wrote:
> 
> A machine with an older version of DU had even less converters
> to choose from (1 !) and my US-based systems appear to be
> offline at present, but there is probably an install kit that
> adds the extra converters somewhere, I'll check in the factory
> later.

This is not good.  We're counting on a four function iconv, if you see
what I mean.  
 
> As to what I require, it worked fine for me without all this
> iconv stuff, I'm happy for it just to go away :)))

Maybe we should treat this in src/replacements/iconv.c.  Write a simple
stupid iconv(3) that knows how to convert ASCII <-> UCS-2.  That would
satisfy the Roman-restricted, and might make things simpler within libtds.
 

In any case, the next version of tds_iconv() will let iconv-less
configurations connect ASCII clients to Microsoft servers.  

--jkl