FreeTDS Development Group

[Craig Berry <craigberry AT mac.com>]

On Tuesday, June 24, 2003, at 11:14AM, Thompson, Bill D (London) 
<ThompBil AT exchange.uk.ml.com> wrote:


>I don't know the format, but I'm guessing that its telling me it only
>supports conversions between the "8859" type character set and the "646"
>type character set.

Yes, it looks like only conversions between ISO Latin 1 and ASCII are 
available on your system.  I know next to nothing about Solaris, but more 
than likely you only get other conversions if you install optional language 
kits or internationalization packages.  The following query looks promising 
in that regard:

http://docs.sun.com/?q=SUNWuiu8


I think the moral of this story for the configuration mavens is that the 
world is not as simple as the two categories "defined(HAVE_ICONV)" and "! 
defined(HAVE_ICONV)".  It is quite possible to have a perfectly good iconv() 
function with a very limited set of data for it to operate on.  What seems to 
be of interest to FreeTDS is whether the UCS-2LE, ISO-8859-1, and UTF-8 
conversions are all available.  If they aren't, I don't think it matters 
whether iconv is present as we'll have to use home-grown conversions in any 
case.