FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <james.k.lowden AT alliancebernstein.com>]

> On 4/11/06, blackwater dev <blackwaterdev AT gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Ok, I set the config dump and saw where it was getting the config.
> > I then set up a section in the config:
> >
> > [mystuff]
> >         host = xxx.xx.xxx.xx
> >         port = 1433 
> >         tds version = 8.0
> >
> > and in the php mssql_connect function pass in
> > ("mystuff",$username,$password);
> >
> > The problem is, if I use version 8.0, I get this for just about
> > every column if not every column:
> >
> > Warning: mssql_query(): WARNING! Some character(s) could not be
> > converted into client's character set. Unconverted bytes were
> > changed to question marks ('?'). (severity 16) in
> > /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/nh/includes/lib/ms_db.class.php on line
> > 182 PHP Warning:  mssql_query(): WARNING! Some character(s) could
> > not be converted into client's character set. Unconverted bytes
> > were changed to question marks ('?'). (severity 16) in
> > /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/nh/includes/lib/ms_db.class.php on line
> > 182
>
> From: blackwater dev
> Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 2:18 PM
> 
> I just checked and my char set is:LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
> SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en"
> 
> So seems like UTF-8 should have worked unless I messed up the entry
> in conf.

Could I see the first 10 or so lines from your TDSDUMP log?  I'd like to
see what character set is being used for your TDS 8.0 connection.  If
you could include in it a short query that elicits the error, that might
also be helpful.  

There is almost no such thing, for our purposes here, as a character
that cannot be encoded as UTF-8.  It *is* possible to have misencoded
data on the server (which would stymie the iconv library with invalid
input), but that's a rare problem that takes some doing to create.  More
likely is some kind of client misconfiguration.  

You're getting there, even if by inches.  :-)

--jkl

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