FreeTDS Development Group

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

Riccardo Penco wrote:
> If in a php script I write:
> 
> $sql = "SELECT Città from PDV";
> $res = mssql_query($sql, $conn);
> 
> I obtain the following error message:
> Warning: mssql_query(): Error converting client characters into server's
> 
> character set. Some character(s) could not be converted. (severity 16)

Does the query work in tsql?  It should.  

SQL Server 2000 encodes database object names in UCS-2, which obviously
can represent 'Città'.  The error message may be telling you that the à is
arriving not as UTF-8 (2 bytes) but as ISO 8859-1 (1 byte, high bit on). 
Attempting to interpret ISO 8859-1 as UTF-8 will elicit that message.  

A TDSDUMP log will provide more detailed information about the failed
conversion.  

HTH.  

--jkl