FreeTDS Development Group

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

Hi Freddy, 

Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> 
> Well, I think it's wrong since... 3 or 4 years ago. Good spot! At this
> point however should we fix this?

I'm not sure.  For now, I think we should fix the documentation for
locales.conf.  

> About locales.conf, freetds.conf, client charset, etc. I think there is
> a lot of confusion... For instance is not true that client charset (only
> in freetds.conf) is use only with TDS 7+. If charset is not given
> FreeTDS try to match charset for Sybase using client charset.

We use libiconv only for TDS7+.  That's what I meant.  

I haven't completely traced how freetds.conf's 'client charset' gets used
for a TDS 5.0 connection.  Can our friend do this in freetds.conf?

[default]
        client charset = iso_1

I'm not sure what you mean by "If charset is not given".


Regards, 

--jkl