sybperl-l Archive

From: Michael Peppler <mpeppler at mbay dot net>
Subject: Selecting charset or language from sybperl
Date: Jan 21 1999 9:44PM

>>>>> "Antonio" == Antonio Vasconcelos  writes:

Antonio> I'm looking for a way to make sybperl do (or don't do)
Antonio> charset conversions for me.

Antonio> The server I'm accessing via Sybase::CTLIB is a M$-SQL Server
Antonio> 6.5, I had no connectivity problems whatsoever, I just
Antonio> created a server running in port 1433 in the interfaces file
Antonio> and I can access it from isql or sybperl.

Antonio> The problem is that I have a lot of TEXT and VARCHAR fields
Antonio> with national chars, I think that this chars are in iso8859-1
Antonio> (Latin 1) as they were typed in from HTML froms via .IDC +
Antonio> .HTX scripts/pages into a M$-IIS 3 server and then sent to
Antonio> the SQL server. All users are using portuguese / spanish /
Antonio> english versions of w95 / 98 and portuguese or spanhish
Antonio> keyboards.

I suspect that IIS and SQL Server is converting the iso8859-1
characters to some MS encoding of some sort. I did a quick run to
check all the character values/mappings here and the mapping that ç is 
turned into on your second example doesn't exist (Solaris 7, Sparc,
Netscape 4.5).

Antonio> a) The data inside the tables IS NOT in iso8859-1 but the IIS
Antonio> server is providing conversion and Sybperl don't so, I got
Antonio> unconverted chars in God knows what code page

What is the default character set for MS-SQL server? Do you have any
localization installed? This *may* also be a communication problem
between MS-SQL server and Sybase's OpenClient.

Antonio> b) The data is IN iso8859-1 but sybperl are doing charset
Antonio> conversion to something different.

Probably not, unless you've set the locale to something specific on
the linux box.

Antonio> I tryed to call $db->ct_con_props(CS_CHARSETCNV, << 0 or 1 >>
Antonio> ) but it looks to be unsupported by sybperl as I receive:

Indeed. However CS_CHARSETCNV is a read-only value (according to the
Sybase docs) so you can't force conversion NOT to happen...

I suspect that I need to add some form of cs_locale() support to
Sybase::CTlib to allow the user to define the character set that he is 
using (Sybase::DBlib supports this via DBSETLCHARSET()).

You can do some more research on this by selecting only the ç in
'intervençao' (using substring() for example) and using ascii() on it
to see what it is stored as. Run this both using an MS client (don't
know if they have a command line tool à la isql) and using either isql 
or sybperl (or both) from the linux client.

This should enable you to find out who is doing the conversion...

Michael
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