FreeTDS Development Group

[brian AT bruns.com]

AFAIK, most unix unicode is done using UTF-8.  Is UCS-2
a hard requirement for you or just unicode?

Depending on your situation, you could allow FreeTDS to
convert UCS-2 to UTF-8 and make your application
convert it back to UCS-2 (not an ideal solution I
admit, but better than none at all).

Brian

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 13:19:44 -0500, "Rogers, Tom" wrote:

> 
> Sorry, I was trying to describe our macro strategy. 
> Yes, for Linux/SQL 2K
> FreeTDS is our trump card and we are hoping that
> NVARCHAR/UCS-2 will work
> for us, though I have read the FAQ and users guide and
> see that it probably
> won't.  I guess I am asking for current
> work-in-progress status for
> supporting UCS-2.  Thanks.
> 
> Thomas Rogers
> System Engineer
> Concurrent Computer Corporation
> > phone: 215.712.7422 x7261
> > 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of
> Thompson, Bill D
> (London)
> Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 11:41 AM
> To: 'FreeTDS Development Group'
> Subject: RE: [freetds] UCS-2, UTF-16...does it work?
> 
> 
> Tom,
> 
> The obvious gotcha is that FreeTDS is not going to
talk
> to Oracle databases!
> FreeTDS can only talk to databases that support the
TDS
> protocol.
> This means Sybase and SQL Server primarily.
> 
> I'll let someone better qualified to talk to the
> character sets issue, but
> the latest work on FreeTDS is aimed at this sort of
> requirement.
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:       Rogers, Tom [SMTP:tom.rogers AT ccur.com]
> > Sent:       10 December 2003 16:32
> > To: 'FreeTDS Development Group'
> > Subject:    [freetds] UCS-2, UTF-16...does it work?
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > Thomas Rogers
> > System Engineer
> > Concurrent Computer Corporation
> > phone: 215.712.7422 x7261
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