Posted by deciacco on 07/11/06 15:02

Thank you all for the reply...

How do I flatten into an 8-bit encoding...?


Chung Leong wrote:
> eugenio@iatmgu.com wrote:
> > Hi...not sure if this is the right group for this posting, but i'm
> > don't know where else to post. I've got a simple problem...I have a
> > linux box running apache 2.0 and php5. I'm trying to use the mssql
> > functions in php to retreive data from a mssql server 2k. I'm pulling
> > data from the customers table in the northwind db and i'm getting
> > strange characters instead of special characters. Below is a sample
> > output:
>
> The text columns in the Northwind database are all nvarchar/ntext--i.e.
> Unicode. These have to be flatten into an 8-bit encoding, since the
> libraries used by the mssql extension can't handle Unicode (nor can PHP
> itself for that matter).
>
> On Windows, I believe the encoding is determined by the current locale.
> On Linux, it's set in freetds.conf.

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