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- From: Steve Langasek <vorlon AT dodds.net>
- To: freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [freetds] FreeTDS and UTF-8 support
- Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:02:57 -0700
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 01:59:54PM -0400, James K. Lowden wrote:
> 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.
FWIW, UTF-8 is a multibyte character set, and is understood by mbtowc() from
glibc.
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Re: [freetds] FreeTDS and UTF-8 support,
Sebastien FLAESCH, 07/23/2008
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Re: [freetds] FreeTDS and UTF-8 support,
James K. Lowden, 07/23/2008
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Re: [freetds] FreeTDS and UTF-8 support,
Steve Langasek, 07/23/2008
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Re: [freetds] FreeTDS and UTF-8 support,
Sebastien FLAESCH, 07/24/2008
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Re: [freetds] FreeTDS and UTF-8 support,
James K. Lowden, 07/24/2008
- Re: [freetds] FreeTDS and UTF-8 support, Sebastien FLAESCH, 07/24/2008
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Re: [freetds] FreeTDS and UTF-8 support,
Steve Langasek, 07/24/2008
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Re: [freetds] FreeTDS and UTF-8 support,
Sebastien FLAESCH, 07/25/2008
- Re: [freetds] FreeTDS and UTF-8 support, Steve Langasek, 07/25/2008
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Re: [freetds] FreeTDS and UTF-8 support,
Sebastien FLAESCH, 07/25/2008
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Re: [freetds] FreeTDS and UTF-8 support,
James K. Lowden, 07/24/2008
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Re: [freetds] FreeTDS and UTF-8 support,
Sebastien FLAESCH, 07/24/2008
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Re: [freetds] FreeTDS and UTF-8 support,
Steve Langasek, 07/23/2008
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
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Re: [freetds] FreeTDS and UTF-8 support,
Igor Korot, 07/24/2008
- Re: [freetds] FreeTDS and UTF-8 support - What is UNICODE?, Sebastien FLAESCH, 07/24/2008
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Re: [freetds] FreeTDS and UTF-8 support,
James K. Lowden, 07/23/2008
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