FreeTDS Development Group

[Rébeli-Szabó Tamás <tamas.rebeli.szabo AT webvalto.hu>]

Hello

I have just been through a setup connecting an Oracle database to an MS 
SQL database using FreeTDS. I want to express my thanks for this great 
project.


I also want to point out something that was not so straightforward for 
me reading the otherwise very good documentation.

When retrieving data from the server, I had '?' characters in the place 
of some accented characters. So I needed to set the "client charset" 
parameter, which is only doable in freetds.conf.

Now there is a nice descripiton in "Chapter 5. Advanced Configurations > 
Localization and TDS 7.0" of this "question mark issue". But I was using 
the odbc.ini file for configuration, and this page did not tell me 
whether I can, and if I can, how to use this setting in the odbc.ini, or 
if I cannot, how to get FreeTDS to use this parameter from freetds.conf.

Later I found out that the answer is described in "Chapter 4. Preparing 
ODBC > ODBC-combined configuration". Everything is documented fine, but 
a small hint or a reference to this page from the "Localization and TDS 
7.0" page might come in handy for others as well.

It would also be nice to make it clear at some point in the 
documentation (perhaps in "Chapter 4. Preparing ODBC > Background and 
Terminology") that some parameters can only be set in freetds.conf, 
while others only in odbc.ini. This was not so clear for me either.

Thank you again.


Kind regards to everyone

Tamas Rebeli-Szabo