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["Martin Dümpelhuber" <ansuzgardareiwo AT gmx.de>]

Hi,

thanks for your help. The solution was in my case to set charset and client
charset to CP1252.

This ended a quite long search :-)

bye

> 
> On Nov 22, 2004, at 16:42, ansuzgardareiwo AT gmx.de wrote:
> 
> > i have the following problem:
> > If I try to write or read a Euro Symbol from / to a SQL-Server 2000, 
> > there
> > is a question mark in the result set / table.
> 
> You will have to use a different character encoding by setting the 
> "client charset" option in your freetds.conf file.
> 
> iso-8859-1 doesn't contain the Euro sign.
> 
> Of the single-byte encodings, iso-8859-9 will have it, if it's 
> supported by your system's iconv library. Depending on the age of your 
> system, windows-1252 a.k.a cp1252 (Windows Latin 1) should also have 
> it.
> 
> And of course it's in utf-8, but your software probably isn't ready to 
> handle utf-8 data or you'd be using it already and not having problems 
> with any character.
> 
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