FreeTDS Development Group

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

Michael Mata wrote:
> 
> Since we can't specify client charset in a DSN-less configuration, I
> reverted to using freetds.conf and I'm still getting str returned
> instead of unicode. 

I think I found a bug, but I don't think it's causing what you're seeing. 
It's only preventing me from helping you.  

I created a table as follows:

bsqldb -q -S$S -U$U -P$(password $S $U) <<SQL
create table test_utf8
        ( id int IDENTITY
        , name nchar(10) not NULL
        , primary key (id)
        )
insert test_utf8 (name) values ('hallå')
insert test_utf8 (name) values ('adjö')
insert test_utf8 (name) values ('Århus')
go
SQL

(I hope those are readable in your mail client.)  

When I fetch these rows with bsqlodbc, I provoke an error:

$ printf "select * from test_utf8\ngo\n" | bsqlodbc -S$S -U$U -P$(password
$S $U)    
        id  name      
----------  ----------
"[FreeTDS][SQL Server]Data truncated"
         1  hall      
"[FreeTDS][SQL Server]Data truncated"
         2  adj       
"[FreeTDS][SQL Server]Data truncated"
         3  rhus      

Using bsqldb I don't get an error but I also don't get correct output: the
non-ASCII characters are missing.  I don't know why yet.  

$ printf "select * from test_utf8\ngo\n" | TDSDUMP=bsqldb.dump bsqldb
-S${S}utf8 -U$U -P$(password $S $U) |hexdump -C
         id  name                                    
-----------  ----------------------------------------
3 rows affected
00000000  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  20 20 31 20 20 68 61 6c  |          1 
hal|
00000010  6c 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  |l            
  |
00000020  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  |             
  |
00000030  20 20 20 20 20 0a 20 20  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  |     .       
  |
00000040  32 20 20 61 64 6a 20 20  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  |2  adj       
  |
00000050  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  |             
  |
00000060  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  20 20 20 0a 20 20 20 20  |           . 
  |
00000070  20 20 20 20 20 20 33 20  20 72 68 75 73 20 20 20  |      3  rhus
  |
00000080  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  |             
  |
*
000000a0  20 0a                                             | .|
000000a2

$ grep conversions bsqldb.dump 
iconv.c:364:setting up conversions for client charset "UTF-8"

--jkl