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  • From: "James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT freetds.org>
  • To: FreeTDS Development Group <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [freetds] FreeTDS and UTF-8 support
  • Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:59:54 -0400

Sebastien FLAESCH wrote:
> > I see no reason support multibyte characters. I have no problem
> > converting to UCS-2, UTF-8, etc. But I see no value in using
> > pre-iconv functions or supporting weird encodings. Unicode is making
> > them obsolete.
...
> So the idea is to make FreeTDS support multi-byte characters sets, even
> if it's just UTF-8:

Hi Sebastien,

We agree; we're just tripping over terminology. By "multibyte characters"
I meant pre-Unicode encodings, such as input to mbtowc(3). I'm happy to
support UTF-8.

UTF-8 basically works now. The only exception I know of is parameter
buffers in db-lib. Frediano is working on (I guess) UTF-16.

Regards,

--jkl




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