FreeTDS Development Group

["Burkhard Meier" <Burkhard AT habmalnefrage.de>]

Hi James,

> 
> 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.  

So far I can say it is working very well! Unicode characters outside the BMP 
are now correctly converted to UTF-16 and back to UTF-8. The characters in 
the UCS-2 range still seem to work too.

> 
> 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.  

I will do that.

Thank you very much for your help!

Best Regards,
  Burkhard


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