FreeTDS Development Group

["James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT freetds.org>]

On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:03:58 -0500
Randy Syring <rsyring AT gmail.com> wrote:

> Assuming there is a charset value in freetds.conf that applies to the 
> current connection and and DBSETLCHARSET() is used to set a different 
> value, which one wins?

As far as db-lib is concerned, a call to DBSETLCHARSET() is the last
word on the matter.  Anything else is a bug.  

Programatic settings should always win over environmental ones.  If the
application wants to let the user affect something through environment
variables, that's fully within its power to accomplish.  

HTH.  

--jkl