FreeTDS Development Group

[Mike Slifcak <slif AT bellsouth.net>]

Hi, LacaK.
http://code.activestate.com/lists/perl-dbi-users/34988/
  describes a Perl solution for similar problem.

If you cannot force the server to use UTF-8,
You may want to change your client's character set to ISO-8859-1.

Regards,
-Mike Slifcak

LacaK wrote:
> Hi,
> I have problems with correct character data encoding, when reading data 
> from MS SQL Server (using DB-Lib), where I have table with char/varchar 
> columns, which use CP1250 encoding .
> My freetds.conf is:
> [global]
> tds version = 7.2
> client charset = UTF-8
> dump file = freetds.log
>
>  From freetds.log:
> log.c:196:Starting log file for FreeTDS 0.83.dev
>    on 2011-09-13 08:45:51 with debug flags 0x4fff.
> iconv.c:337:tds_iconv_open(026B0860, UTF-8)
> iconv.c:312:Using trivial iconv
> iconv.c:197:local name for ISO-8859-1 is ISO-8859-1
> iconv.c:197:local name for UTF-8 is UTF-8
> iconv.c:197:local name for UCS-2LE is UCS-2LE
> iconv.c:197:local name for UCS-2BE is UCS-2BE
> iconv.c:365:setting up conversions for client charset "UTF-8"
> iconv.c:367:preparing iconv for "UTF-8" <-> "UCS-2LE" conversion
> iconv.c:408:preparing iconv for "ISO-8859-1" <-> "UCS-2LE" conversion
> iconv.c:411:tds_iconv_open: done
> net.c:205:Connecting to 10.0.0.2 port 1433 (TDS version 7.1)
> ...
> iconv.c:1025:setting server single-byte charset to "CP1250"
> iconv.c:487:"CP1250" not supported by iconv, using "ISO-8859-1" 
> instead    <--- may be here is source of problem ???
> ...
> net.c:600:Received packet
> 0000 04 01 00 92 00 3c 01 00-81 02 00 00 00 10 00 38 |.....<.. .......8|
> 0010 0b 69 00 64 00 65 00 6e-00 74 00 5f 00 66 00 69 |.i.d.e.n .t._.f.i|
> 0020 00 65 00 6c 00 64 00 00-00 09 00 a7 0a 00 1b 04 |.e.l.d.. ........|
> 0030 f0 00 00 09 73 00 74 00-72 00 5f 00 66 00 69 00 |....s.t. r._.f.i.|
> 0040 65 00 6c 00 64 00 d1 03-00 00 00 09 00 73 74 72 |e.l.d... .....str|
> 0050 33 *9a e8 9d 9e* 33 d1 04-00 00 00 0a 00 64 65 66 |3....3.. 
> .....def|  <--- here data comes (9a e8 9d 9e which corresponds to "ščťž" 
> in Win1250 encoding)
> ...
> Why data comes in server original (SBCS) encoding ?
> My understanding of TDS 7+ was, that server always send UCS-2 encoded 
> character data (may be, that it is true only for nchar/nvarchar and 
> metadata) (http://www.freetds.org/userguide/localization.htm) ?
> (so iconv can always convert them into UTF-8) ... but now it seems, that 
> character data (other than nchar/nvarchar) are in server SBCS.
> (so task convert to utf-8 is leaved to freeTDS)
>
> If it is so. Then can I set up freeTDS to not handle this data as 
> ISO-8859-1 encoded ?
> (I would prefer if unsupported conversion will be detected, then use for 
> example current system character encoding rather than ISO-8859-1 ... IMO 
> in most cases real character encoding will be different than ISO-8859-1 
> ... which will lead to wrong results)
> Or is there any other way how to receive correct results ?
>
> TIA
> -Laco.
>
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