FreeTDS Development Group

[Vinh Nguyen <vinhdizzo AT gmail.com>]

Thank you so much Craig.  I'll try it once it's applied to the source online.

Vinh

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Craig A. Berry <craigberry AT mac.com> wrote:
> The attached patch completes the client charset handling changes we've had
> in progress for a couple weeks now.  It includes changes previously
> submitted but not yet applied as well some new changes.  It makes sense to
> look at it all together as one integral set of changes.
>
> Here's what it does:
>
> 1.) Completely removes client charset handling from locales.conf processing,
> including removing the client_charset field from the TDSLOCALE structure.
>  This is obviously a binary incompatibility and should trigger relevant
> policies about when it can ship and so forth.
>
> 2.) Sets the client charset based on the current locale in
> tds_alloc_connection(), essentially moving logic to there from
> tds_alloc_locale().
>
> 3.)  In tds_iconv_info_init(), reports problems getting a canonical charset
> without using the nonexistent canonical name that it failed to look up.
>
> 4.)  Modifies tsql so that it does not hard-wire the client charset to
> whatever the current locale says it is.  It now lets the library default it
> to that, but it can be overridden by either freetds.conf or by the newly
> implemented -J command line option.  Of course the freetds.conf setting
> works for any application, not just tsql.
>
> Affected files:
>
> % lsdiff -s charset_update.patch
> ! include/tds.h
> ! src/apps/tsql.c
> ! src/tds/iconv.c
> ! src/tds/locale.c
> ! src/tds/mem.c
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