FreeTDS Development Group

[Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT gmail.com>]

2014-08-29 17:50 GMT+01:00 John Anderson <sontek AT gmail.com>:

> Hello!  I'm wondering if you had any tips on how to work with characters
> larger than 0xFFFF?  We currently have the problem where we try to
> insert/update a row in the database and it gets truncated at the character
> and creates an invalid syntax:
>
> For example this character:   \U0001f44d
>
> We've tracked this down to the fact that FreeTDS is trying to convert this
> to UCS-2 rather than UTF16-LE, which is what SQL Server 2012 uses.
>
> For example if we say:
>
> INSERT INTO table(name) VALUES(N' Hello \U0001f44d')
>
>
How are you using this string?


> We get the error:
>
> Unclosed quotation mark after the character string 'Hello ' because it
> stops processing the rest of the query.
>
> Is there a freetds.conf or environment setting we can use to tell it to use
> UTF-16LE instead of UCS2 so that we can accept these larger character sets?
>
> As a temporary solution we've started sending the raw UTF-16LE bytes to
> FreeTDS but we prefer not having to do this.
>
> Thanks,
> John
>

Frediano