FreeTDS Development Group

[Brad Wery <bradwery AT gmail.com>]

Can you point me to some documentation that outlines how to setup UTF-8? I
can't use config files for this because end users may not know how to set
this up.

How can I add support for wide encoding?


On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 6:58 AM, Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT gmail.com> wrote:

> 2010/6/19 Brad Wery <bradwery AT gmail.com>:
> > This one is a bit over my head. With other ODBC drivers, I don't have to
> do
> > anything special and Unicode characters come back from the database
> correct.
> > With FreeTDS, the characters are converted and some actually turn to "?".
> >
> > I won't know the configuration of the server before hand, nor will I know
> > the language of the strings stored in the database.
> >
> > I noticed that a lot of people ask about this. Is it a bug? I did notice
> > this code in token.c:
> >
> > if (curcol->on_server.column_type == SYBLONGBINARY && (
> >        curcol->column_usertype == USER_UNICHAR_TYPE ||
> >        curcol->column_usertype == USER_UNIVARCHAR_TYPE)) {
> >        /* FIXME ucs2 is not UTF-16... */
> >        /* FIXME what happen if client is big endian ?? */
> >        curcol->char_conv = tds->char_convs[client2ucs2];
> >    }
> >
> > I couldn't help but notice the fix me labels. Is this the cause?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Brad
>
> No, if you doin't use klingon or other strange languages. You have to
> set up utf-8. The problem is that we do not still support wide
> encoding.
>
> freddy77
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