FreeTDS Development Group

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

Hi Burkhard, 

> From all that I learned about this, it seems it would be safe
> intepreting the UCS-2 characters as UTF-16
... 
> I would appreciate your help with such a change... for sure I can help
> with testing it.

I have a suggestion for a hack.  If you're right and I'm right, it might
work.  

In src/tds/iconv.c, the string constant "UCS-2LE" appears 4 times.  Change
them to "UTF-16LE".  Recompile.  Make sure you're using GNU libiconv.  Run
your test.  Watch for smoke.  

If UTF-16 really is a superset of UCS-2, it should Just Work.  That change
doesn't fake anything; it just treats as UTF-16 what would otherwise be
regarded as UCS-2.  If it works, please update the comments and the
variable names (and for extra credit, the documentation), post your patch
and call it a day.  

HTH.  

--jkl