FreeTDS Development Group

[Chris Ballard <cballard AT datix.co.uk>]

Hi guys,

We have a web app running on Windows under PHP 5.3.8 using FreeTDS v0.82 to
connect to SQL Server.  The original config was as follows:

[global]
        host = ourserver
        port = 1433
        tds version = 8.0
        text size = 20971520

We're experiencing problems saving some characters (e.g. “) to the DB - 
they're
entered as question marks.  

I've attempted to remedy this by adding a client charset definition, but 
setting
this to CP1252 results in the connection to SQL Server not working at all.  

Curiously, this works if I change the tds version to 7.2 (i.e. the connection 
is
successful and the characters are saved correctly) but 
all the the calls to stored procedures then fail.

Would be very grateful if anyone can suggest a resolution.

Many thanks in advance,
Chris