FreeTDS Development Group

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

> From: Pedro Barbosa
> Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 12:37 PM
> 
> Thanks for that, but i solved it by exporting  LANG=pt_PT I wanted
> to use the DB to build xml for dspace and with that i only had to
> define ISO-8859-1 in the xml header.

OK.  tsql should report your locale now encodes as ISO 8859-1.  

FreeTDS defaults to ISO 8859-1 if there's no 'client charset' defined in 
freetds.conf.  

--jkl

> Lowden, James K wrote:
> >>From: Pedro Barbosa Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 6:45 AM
> >>James K. Lowden wrote:
> >>
> >>>>Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>Il giorno ven, 04/11/2005 alle 16.18 +0000, Pedro Barbosa ha
> >>>>>scritto:  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?
> >>>>        
> >>>The "client charset" in freetds.conf should match the character
> >>>set on the client indicated by locale(1).
> >
> >>when i try to access from [freetds]/bin/tsql ....  it says :
> >>locale is "pt_PT.UTF-8" locale charset is "UTF-8"
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Good.  Your locale is the Portuguese language using the UTF-8
> >character set.  Your client wants FreeTDS to convert characters
> >e.g. "é ou ç ão" from the server's encoding (iso_1, perhaps) to
> >UTF-8.
> >
> >Probably you should change your freetds.conf entry to:
> >
> >[server]
> >     host = ip port =1433 
> >     tds version = 8.0 
> >     client charset = utf-8

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