Re: Unable to connect to Sql Server via PHP when client chartset = CP1252

"James K. Lowden" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.tds.freetds
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:32:43 +0000 (UTC)
Chris Ballard <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.  

Are you linked to a real iconv library?  The built-in one won't handle
1252.  TDSDUMP is your friend there, also "tsql -C".  

Second, what collation are you using on the column holding the, ahem,
smart quotes?  Are those characters in fact part of that collation?  

--jkl
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