FreeTDS Development Group

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

> Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> >Il giorno ven, 04/11/2005 alle 16.18 +0000, Pedro Barbosa ha scritto:
> >>By the way dows anyone knows how to solve the problem of encoding.
> >when  >i do a select in a table i get the tipical portuguese caracters
> >like a  >square. how can i solve this?
> >
> >You have to use a client encoding that is compatible.
> >
Pedro Barbosa wrote:
> 
> freddy  can you be a litlle more specific?
> i assume if any change needs to be done is is freetds.conf, but what do 
> i have to had ?
> Do i have to specify something to the configuration on my server like 
> "unicode= pt" ????

Frediano means your encodings have to match. 

The "client charset" in freetds.conf should match the character set on the
client indicated by locale(1).  

HTH.  

--jkl