Re: Unicode problem

Vano Beridze <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.tds.freetds
Message-ID <[email protected]>
odbc.ini

[server]
Driver          = FreeTDS
Description             = SQL 2008
Trace           = No
Server          = 192.168.1.50
Port            = 1433
TDS Version             = 8.0
Database                = mydb

ClientCharset 	A name recognized by the iconv library linked to FreeTDS. 
Corresponds to client charset in freetds.conf. 	ISO 8859-1 	Character 
set (encoding) used by the client.


I've defined UTF-8 in freetds.conf
Is it necessary to indiciate it during odbc connection?

Vano Beridze
Software Developer
Silk Road Group

On 9/3/2013 3:45 PM, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> How did you configure odbc.ini ?
>
> Try to add ClientCharset (see
> http://www.freetds.org/userguide/odbcconnattr.htm)
>
> Frediano
>
>
> 2013/9/3 Vano Beridze <[email protected]>
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've got windows 7 machine that runs SQL Server Express 2008  R2.
>> I've some table with nvarchar field that contains unicode data.
>>
>> Another linux (CentOS 6.4) machine runs Apache 2.2 with php 5.3.3.
>> freetds version is 0.91
>>
>> This is the /etc/freetds.conf file
>> [global]
>>           # TDS protocol version
>>           tds version = 8.0
>>           port = 1433
>>           client charset = UTF-8
>>           # Whether to write a TDSDUMP file for diagnostic purposes
>>           # (setting this to /tmp is insecure on a multi-user system)
>>           dump file = /tmp/freetds.log
>>           debug flags = 0x4fff
>>
>>           # Command and connection timeouts
>>           timeout = 180
>>           connect timeout = 180
>>
>>           # If you get out-of-memory errors, it may mean that your client
>>           # is trying to allocate a huge buffer for a TEXT field.
>>           # Try setting 'text size' to a more reasonable limit
>>           text size = 20971520
>>
>> I've created simple php script that connects to sql server and reads
>> data from that table (actually there is a view to hide unnecessary fields)
>>
>> Here is the php script
>> <?php
>> echo "<html><head>";
>> echo '<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"
>> />';
>> echo "</head>";
>> echo "<body>";
>> echo "<h1>Hello</h1>";
>> $connect = odbc_connect("server", "someuser", "somepass");
>>
>> if (!$connect) {
>> echo '<h3 color="red">Could not connect to the database!!!</h3>';
>> die();
>> }
>>
>>
>> # query the users table for all fields
>> $query = "SELECT odf_address FROM dbo.odf";
>>
>> # perform the query
>> $result = odbc_exec($connect, $query);
>>
>> # fetch the data from the database
>> while(odbc_fetch_row($result)) {
>> #$field1 = odbc_result($result, 1);
>> $field2 = odbc_result($result, 1);
>> #echo $field1;
>> #echo "<br>";
>> echo $field2;
>> echo "<br>";
>> }
>>
>> # close the connection
>> odbc_close($connect);
>> echo "</body></html>";
>> ?>
>>
>> The script works fine. it connects and gets the data. The only problem I
>> have is that data is shown as question marks, so it's not converted to
>> UTF-8. I've read all the information I could find on the internet but
>> can not solve the problem.
>>
>> Could you please suggest what's the problem?
>>
>> --
>> Vano Beridze
>> Software Developer
>> Silk Road Group
>>
>>
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