FreeTDS Development Group

["James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT schemamania.org>]

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Gosia.Rainer AT t-online.de (Rainer Spittel) wrote:
>         [root@pc03 php-4.3.3]# tsql -H 192.168.6.2 -U sa -P [myPassword]
>         -p
> 1433
>         locale is "de_DE.UTF-8"
>         charset is "UTF-8"
>         src/tds/login.c: tds_connect: 192.168.6.2:1433:
>         Verbindungsaufbau
> abgelehnt [connection refused]
>         Msg 20009, Level 9, State 0, Server OpenClient, Line 0
>         Server is unavailable or does not exist.
>         There was a problem connecting to the server
>         [root@pc03 php-4.3.3]# 

Consider using 0.62rc1.  In a week or two, 0.62 will be released.  It will
include much *much* improved UTF-8 support, which you'll evidently want.  

It may be that 0.61.2 is failing because it's incorrectly interpreting
characters > 127.  Using ISO 8859-1 (or -15) might help.  

HTH.  

--jkl