FreeTDS Development Group

["Thompson, Bill D (London)" <bill_d_thompson AT ml.com>]

Hey freddy,

I downloaded latest snapshot yesterday, and have made some changes for
cursors.
I tried the tds/unittests and the UTF-8 test failed ( I use
--disable-libiconv )
will it pass now ?

Bill

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ZIGLIO Frediano [SMTP:Frediano.Ziglio AT vodafone.com]
> Sent: 12 December 2003 11:23
> To:   FreeTDS Development Group
> Subject:      RE: [freetds] HP/UX and iconv
> 
> > 
> > On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, "ZIGLIO Frediano" <Frediano.Ziglio AT vodafone.com>
> > wrote:
> > > From man iconv(3)
> > > 
> > > If iconv() encounters a character in the input buffer that is legal 
> > > but for which an identical character does not exist in the target 
> > > codeset,
> > > iconv() maps this character to a pre-defined character, called the
> > > "galley character" that is defined at the time of table 
> > generation. (See
> > > genxlt(1)).
> > > 
> > > This mean that under such architecture invalid characters are not 
> > > converted to '?' but to system depentend value (in case utf-8 -> 
> > > iso8859-1 it's a '.') ...
> > 
> > OK, we should note that in our documentation.  Something 
> > like, "Your iconv may behave somewhat differently, cf. iconv(3)."  
> > 
> > Does HP's (?) iconv(3) set errno in this case?  
> > 
> 
> No.. it just returns success without setting errno...
> 
> Yesterday I tried --disable-libiconv with some problems (utf8_2
> failed)... I updated iconv replacements adding needed UTF-8 support...
> 
> Now I got all unittests working under:
> - HP/UX 10.20 PARISC (native iconv) mssql2k server
> - Linux RH7.2 i386 (native and replacement iconv) mssql2k server, UTF-8
> and ISO-8859-1 encoding
> - Linux RH9.A i386 (native and replacement iconv) Sybase 11.9.2 server,
> UTF-8 encoding
> (just to update UG...)
> 
> Does Tru64 work OK ? 
> 
> It seems that if -D_REENTRANT is not defined some functions (like
> strtok_r) are not defined causing some problems with platforms where
> sizeof(int) != sizeof(void*) due to implicit conversions. Perhaps this
> should be noted in UG... perhaps we should always define -D_REENTRANT
> even if threadsafe is disabled ??
> 
> freddy77
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