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  • From: "James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT freetds.org>
  • To: FreeTDS Development Group <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [freetds] Charset question
  • Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 21:18:17 -0400

jack brack wrote:
> > The solution should be to do this in freetds.conf:
> >
> > [global] # or servername
> > tds version = 5.0
> > client charset = ISO-8859-1
>
> Yes I tried this, but it didn't work. The LANG setting is overriding it.
> Setting LANG to ISO-8859-1, C, iso8859-1, even iso_1 doesn't work
> either. (I thought the client charset in this file was ignored and I was
> meant to use locales.conf?)
>
> > That should work, but ISTR you tried that and it didn't.

Check your locale(1) documentation. I don't think that's an appropriate
value for LANG. You want something like:

LANG=de_DE.iso88591

--jkl




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