FreeTDS Development Group

[jklowden AT schemamania.org]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 02:58:12PM -0400, jklowden AT schemamania.org wrote:
> 
> 1.  API call e.g. DBSETLCHARSET().
> 2.  freetds.conf. 
> 3.  nl_langinfo(3) /* query using CODESET parameter */
> 4.  setlocale(3) /* query using NULL parameter, split on "." */
> 5.  ISO 8859-1
> 
> None of this works today, as you know.  

It works even less now.  I committed changes to tds_alloc_locale() 
to get its initial values as I described.  glibc give a free backtrace 
error.  I'm sure it's right, but I've run out of time.  

The search-for-canonical has to stay, but the parsing of LANG has to go. 
tds_get_locale() looks mostly wrong, but it's a little hard to untangle. 
All that really has to happen is to canonicalize the value returned by 
tds_alloc_locale() and overwrite that with whatever is read from 
the configuration files.  

(The setlocale(3) stuff arguably should be in tds_get_locale().  I wouldn't 
argue if it got moved there.)  

--jkl