Re: Freetds and Unicode

Thanks Frediano!!!, this solve the problem.

I think this information should be at this pages 
http://www.freetds.org/userguide/unicodefreetds.htm and 
http://www.freetds.org/userguide/localization.htm

Hugo
El 10/21/2015 a las 9:53 AM, Frediano Ziglio escribió:
> 2015-10-20 18:25 GMT+01:00 Hugo Freire <[email protected]>:
>> After investigating a little we have detected that data stored in nvarchar
>> field in sql server 2008 is in UTF-16LE, but FreeTDS uses UCS-2LE to get the
>> data, then freetds raises an exception because UCS-2LE only supports 2 bytes
>> chars, and data stored has 4 bytes.
>>
>> echo -ne '𫠝'| iconv -t utf-16le| hexdump -C
>>
>> works, but
>>
>> echo -ne '𫠝'| iconv -t UCS-2LE hexdump -C
>>
>> raises "iconv: illegal input sequence at position 0" because this char is
>> not in UCS-2LE.
>>
>> Are there any way to force to use UTF-16LE for the server charset?
>>
>>
> See "use utf-16" at http://www.freetds.org/userguide/freetdsconf.htm.
>
> Frediano
>>
>> El 10/8/2015 a las 4:11 PM, Hugo Freire escribió:
>>> I'm testing it with last stable version freetds-0.95.20.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Hugo
>>>
>>> El 10/8/2015 a las 2:29 PM, Igor Korot escribió:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 6:36 AM, Hugo Freire <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm using Freetds from 4 years ago and works perfectly. Now we are
>>>>> trying to
>>>>> allow to store Unicode characters in sql server.
>>>> Can you try the latest release? At least for testing purposes.
>>>> 4 years ago binary is outdated.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you.
>>>>
>>>>> We have detected that we can store without problems any character from
>>>>> first
>>>>> plane of Basic Multilingual Plane
>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane_(Unicode)#Basic_Multilingual_Plane,
>>>>> but
>>>>> not able to store any character from other planes.
>>>>> In the Freetds documentation I can read "At some future time, FreeTDS
>>>>> aims
>>>>> to support Unicode and other multi-byte character sets."
>>>>> After making some tests, we was able to store all Unicode characters
>>>>> using
>>>>> "client charset ISO-8859-1".
>>>>> Unfortunately we have an heterogeneous platform with windows and linux
>>>>> systems connecting to the same data, so the data stored by Freetds using
>>>>> ISO-8859-1 can't be read by .net application for example.
>>>>>
>>>>> Our conclusion was that FreeTDS is unable to store all Unicode
>>>>> characters in
>>>>> SQL Server in UCS-2.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is it correct?
>>>>> Are there any patch that allow to store all UCS-2 characters?
>>>>> Is posible create a patch to allow this?
>>>>> Can someone guide me to start to create this patch?
>>>>>
>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>> Hugo
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