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  • From: Igor Korot <ikorot01 AT gmail.com>
  • To: FreeTDS Development Group <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [freetds] Help with charset
  • Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 22:41:49 -0700

Hi,
Did you install freeTDS from Debian repository or from sources?
If it's the latter, how did you configure it?

Thank you.

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Casey Boardman
<cboardman AT batterymarch.com> wrote:
> I *think* that the client charset needs to match what the server is
> sending.  So if the server is sending CP850, you need to set freetds to
> expect that, or things will get garbled.  Did you try that?  What was the
> result?
>
> Or am I misunderstanding your problem?
>
> -----Original message-----
> From: "Nelson A. de Oliveira" <naoliv AT gmail.com>
> To: FreeTDS Development Group <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Fri, Oct 14, 2011 19:30:19 GMT+00:00
> Subject: Re: [freetds] Help with charset
>
> Hi!
>
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Casey Boardman
> <cboardman AT batterymarch.com> wrote:
>> Are you sure that you are getting UTF-8 from the server?  I know we have
>> on SQL server that we connect to (using freetds) with the client charset =
>> CP1252.
>
> This is the problem. While trying to get UTF-8 it seems to always be
> returning CP850 (no matter how I try to get UTF-8 results).
>
> Best regards,
> Nelson
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