FreeTDS Development Group

[Frediano Ziglio <freddyz77 AT tin.it>]

Il giorno mer, 12/04/2006 alle 21.54 -0400, James K. Lowden ha scritto:
> 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.  
> 

Updated a bit, I don't know if is it what you think about...

> > 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".
> 

in src/tds/login.c

        /* use charset nearest to client or nothing */
        server_charset = NULL;
        if (!tds_dstr_isempty(&connection->server_charset))
                server_charset = tds_dstr_cstr(&connection->server_charset);
        else
                server_charset = 
tds_sybase_charset_name(tds_dstr_cstr(&connection->client_charset));
        if (!server_charset)
                server_charset = "";

freddy77