FreeTDS Development Group

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

Vinh Nguyen wrote:
> 
> Sure, here is a TDSDUMP when I specify TDS version 8:
> 
> log.c:190:Starting log file for FreeTDS 0.82
>         on 2010-04-18 12:42:52 with debug flags 0x4fff.
> iconv.c:197:names for ISO-8859-1: ISO-8859-1
> iconv.c:197:names for UTF-8: UTF-8
> iconv.c:197:names for UCS-2LE: UCS-2LE
> iconv.c:197:names for UCS-2BE: UCS-2BE
> iconv.c:363:iconv to convert client-side data to the "utf-8" character
> set iconv.c:432:tds_iconv_info_init: client charset name "" unrecognized

That doesn't look good.  Are you using OS X's iconv(3)?  It looks like it
wants the name in  upper case.  (Cf. line 197.) 

I think FreeTDS doesn't know the encoding, decides it's "probably" ISO
8859-1 (wrongly) and mis-encodes something in your login packet, causing
the server to reject it.  

--jkl