FreeTDS Development Group

[Steve Haslam <Steve.Haslam AT Activis.com>]

I'm having some wierdness when using FreeTDS (0.61) and DBD::Sybase from
Perl-- after I connect to a database, the LANG environment variable is
downcased in any subprocesses I spawn, although $ENV{LANG} remains
unchanged. Any ideas?

bash$ DBI_TRACE=1 perl -w -MDBI -le 'print "LANG starts as $ENV{LANG}\n";
system("locale"); DBI->connect("dbi:Sybase:uksql", "vss", q{PASSWORD});
print "LANG is now $ENV{LANG}\n"; system("locale")'
    DBI 1.32-nothread dispatch trace level set to 1
LANG starts as en_GB

LANG=en_GB
LC_CTYPE="en_GB"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB"
LC_TIME="en_GB"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB"
LC_ALL=
    -> DBI->connect(dbi:Sybase:uksql, vss, ****)
    -> DBI->install_driver(Sybase) for solaris perl=5.008 pid=23415 ruid=120
euid=120
       install_driver: DBD::Sybase version 1.00 loaded from
/home/steveh/newfreetds/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/sun4-solaris-64int/DBD/Syb
ase.pm
    <- install_driver= DBI::dr=HASH(0xf8810)
    <- connect('uksql' 'vss' ...)= DBI::db=HASH(0x161754) at DBI.pm line 513
    <- STORE('PrintError' 1)= 1 at DBI.pm line 555
    <- STORE('AutoCommit' 1)= 1 at DBI.pm line 555
    <- connect= DBI::db=HASH(0x161754)
    <- DESTROY= undef at -e line 1
LANG is now en_GB

LANG=en_gb
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_ALL=
    <- disconnect_all= 1 at DBI.pm line 575

I can fix this with a rather perverse { $ENV{LANG} = "$ENV{LANG}" }
statement after my DBI->connect() call, but I think this is worth
investigating. Perhaps FreeTDS is mangling the environment directly at some
point?

SRH
--
Steve Haslam, Developer for Activis; Integralis Ltd, Theale
http://www.activis.com/
W:+44-118-923-5272



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