FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>]

> From: Reuben Pearse
> Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 12:09 PM
> 
> I used your "regen" script to setup stuff for the configure script.
> I then hacked the makefile with:
> 
> SYBASE_LIBS = -lct -ltds -lnsl -ldl -lm
> 
> I also had to put the following lines in:
> 
>  SYBASE_LIBDIR = -Wl,-R/usr/pkg/lib \
>                    -Wl,-R/usr/local/lib \ 
>                  -L$(SYBASE_OCOS)/lib

Well, you don't need /usr/pkg/lib unless you have a /usr/pkg directory.
I run NetBSD, where it's normal to have the pkgsrc system
(www.pkgsrc.org) install packages there.  

> I can now connect to MSSQL but when I'm querying textual information
> I get the error:
> 
> Open Client Message Layer 0, Origin 0, Severity 9, Number 99 WARNING!
> Some character(s) could not be converted into client's character
> set. Unconverted bytes were changed to question marks ('?').
> 
> Open Client Message Layer 0, Origin 0, Severity 78, Number 52
> Unknown marker

http://www.freetds.org/userguide/freetdsconf.htm#FREETDSCONFFORMAT

"Unknown marker" almost always means you're using the wrong TDS protocol
version.  For a Microsoft server, use TDS 7.0 or 8.0.  

If your data can't be represented with ISO 8859-1, make sure 'client
charset' in freetds.conf is set appropriately.  

That should do it.  

--jkl

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