Re: [mdb-dev] Internationalisation of the command line tools

[Jeff S. <why...@ya...>]

--- "Pedro A. Aranda Gutiérrez" <pa...@ti...> wrote:
+-----------+--------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
> |IdDirector |Apellidos                                         
> |Nombre                            |
>
+-----------+--------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
> |96         |Previn                                            
> |André                            |
>
+-----------+--------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
> 1 Row retrieved
> 
> The column 'Nombre' should show André. Is there someone working on this?

It is showing André -- in UTF8.  To get it to show up in another encoding,
you need to set the environment variable MDB_ICONV to the encoding you want.
Run 'iconv -l' to see the available encodings.  Most people that need it
changed would want ISO-8859-1.

> Then, I'd also like to point out that mdb-sql is extremely interesting 
> for many quick
> prototyping applications, but only if it can be used as a coprocess. For 
> that you need
> to add an
>     fflush(stdout);
> after every
>     fprintf(stdout,"\n");
> 
> I know it sounds tedious, but the application for this is really 
> _great_. I could provide
> a patch for adding this.

What information can you give on how you are using it?  What are you doing
that libmdbsql cannot provide?

 -- Jeff Smith

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