<blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid #aaa; margin: 10px 0; padding: 0 10px;"><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid #aaa; margin: 10px 0; padding: 0 10px;"><p style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">I created a table in SQL Server 2008R2 with the following column definition:</p><pre style="font-family: monospace,monospace; white-space: pre-wrap;"> UnicodeThing NVARCHAR(50)</pre><p style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">The result of calling SQLColAttribute(… SQL_DESC_OCTET_LENGTH …) is 100. This value is correct as SQL Server stores this as UCS-2.</p><p style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">The problem is going to be converting the UCS-2 into UTF-8. From what I have read, when using the MS ODBC library, there are no client character set options, so you may have to roll your own method to do the character set conversion (which I believe is non-trivial).</p></blockquote><p style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">freetds.conf<br>"client charset = UTF8"<br>in connection settings</p></blockquote><p style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">FreeTDS ≠ MS ODBC library</p><p><a href="https://gerrit.asterisk.org/c/asterisk/+/12812">View Change</a></p><ul style="list-style: none; padding: 0;"></ul><p>To view, visit <a href="https://gerrit.asterisk.org/c/asterisk/+/12812">change 12812</a>. To unsubscribe, or for help writing mail filters, visit <a href="https://gerrit.asterisk.org/settings">settings</a>.</p><div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/EmailMessage"><div itemscope itemprop="action" itemtype="http://schema.org/ViewAction"><link itemprop="url" href="https://gerrit.asterisk.org/c/asterisk/+/12812"/><meta itemprop="name" content="View Change"/></div></div>
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