FreeTDS Development Group

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

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