Re: FreeTDS and UTF-8 support
Steve Langasek <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.db.tds.freetds |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 01:59:54PM -0400, James K. Lowden wrote: > Sebastien FLAESCH wrote: > > > I see no reason support multibyte characters. I have no problem > > > converting to UCS-2, UTF-8, etc. But I see no value in using > > > pre-iconv functions or supporting weird encodings. Unicode is making > > > them obsolete. > ... > > So the idea is to make FreeTDS support multi-byte characters sets, even > > if it's just UTF-8: > Hi Sebastien, > We agree; we're just tripping over terminology. By "multibyte characters" > I meant pre-Unicode encodings, such as input to mbtowc(3). I'm happy to > support UTF-8. FWIW, UTF-8 is a multibyte character set, and is understood by mbtowc() from glibc. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] [email protected]