FreeTDS Development Group

["ZIGLIO Frediano" <Frediano.Ziglio AT vodafone.com>]

> 
> We are looking at internationalizing a couple of our database 
> products, one on SQL 2000 and another on Oracle 9i.  We would 
> like to use NVARCHAR and NVARCHAR2 respectively on those 
> platforms and access the databases from Linux clients using FreeTDS.
> 
> Will this work and if so, are there any gotchas?  We need to 
> support Japanese character sets for certain character string columns.
> 

Hi Thomas!

Current CVS version support NVARCHAR (NVARCHAR2 do not exist in mssql,
FreeTDS support only sql server, not Oracle).
UTF-16 is not correctly supported however it not supported by mssql2k
too.

CVS version is quite stable but you have to use a GNU compatible iconv
to get all stuff working correctly (we are just fixing problems for
others iconv).

freddy77