FreeTDS Development Group

[bohica AT ntlworld.com]

Hi,

Using FreeTDS 0.63.
Linux
iconv -l returns a list containing UTF-8.
my LANG, LC_ALL and LINGUAS are normally en_US

Goal: connect to SQL Server Enterprise Edition (8.00.760) from Linux to
application linked with unixODBC with results returned as UTF-8.

What I have tried:

1. unixODBC's isql with DSN in unixODBC's system odbc.ini
   DSN:
   [msfreetds]
   driver          = freetds
   Description             = freetds test
   Server          = myserver
   Database                = test
   Port            = 1433
   TDS_Version             = 7.0
   client charset = UTF-8


   "client charset = UTF-8" in DSN - does not seem to be read by freetds

   "client charset = UTF-8" in freetds.conf never picked up because
      freetds.conf file never opened (I straced it). Setting TDSDUMPCONFIG
      didn't help either.

2. Tried [1] again but with LANG=UTF-8, LC_ALL=UTF-8
   Still no luck. log file shows:

 10:12:45.788239 Starting log file for FreeTDS 0.63
        on 2005-07-19 10:12:45 with debug level 99.
 10:12:45.788612 names for ISO-8859-1: ISO-8859-1
 10:12:45.788661 names for UTF-8: UTF-8
 10:12:45.788693 names for UCS-2LE: UCS-2LE
 10:12:45.788723 names for UCS-2BE: UCS-2BE
 10:12:45.788753 iconv to convert client-side data to the "ISO-8859-1"
  character set
 10:12:45.788857 tds_iconv_info_init: converting "ISO-8859-1"->"UCS-2LE"
 10:12:45.788930 tds_iconv_info_init: converting "ISO-8859-1"->"UCS-2LE"

3. Created entry in freetds.conf as:
   [freetest]
   host = aslaug
   port = 1433
   client charset = UTF-8
   tds version = 7.0

   and used tsql:

   rm /tmp/freetds.log
   /usr/local/freetds/bin/tsql -S freetest -U x -P y
   locale is "en_US"
   using default charset "ISO-8859-1"

   freetds log:

 10:18:19.400554 Starting log file for FreeTDS 0.63
        on 2005-07-19 10:18:19 with debug level 99.
 10:18:19.400730 names for ISO-8859-1: ISO-8859-1
 10:18:19.400770 names for UTF-8: UTF-8
 10:18:19.400795 names for UCS-2LE: UCS-2LE
 10:18:19.400818 names for UCS-2BE: UCS-2BE
 10:18:19.400865 iconv to convert client-side data to the "ISO-8859-1"
  character set
 10:18:19.400964 tds_iconv_info_init: converting "ISO-8859-1"->"UCS-2LE"
 10:18:19.401027 tds_iconv_info_init: converting "ISO-8859-1"->"UCS-2LE"

4. do [3] again with LC_ALL set:

  rm /tmp/freetds.log
  LC_ALL=UTF-8 /usr/local/freetds/bin/tsql -S freetest -U x -P y
  locale is "C"
  using default charset "ISO-8859-1"

  freetds log same as in 3.

Can anyone tell me please, where I'm going wrong. All I'd like to do is write 
a
small ODBC app which issues sql and retrieves result converted into UTF-8 by
freetds. My table contains some international characters like a euro - 0x20ac.
Perhaps this is not possible.

Thanks.