refs qorelanguage/qore#4710 automatically detect and set character encodings when the driver does not convert encodings for us

Author: davidnich

.gitlab-ci.yml

@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ test-ubuntu:
   image: $CI_REGISTRY/infrastructure/qore-test-base/qore-test-base:develop
   script:
     - |
+        printf "[rippy]\n  host = rippy\n  port = 1433\n  tds version = 7.4" > /etc/freetds.conf
         if test/docker_test/test-ubuntu.sh; then
           curl "https://api.github.com/repos/qorelanguage/${REPO_NAME}/statuses/${CI_COMMIT_SHA}" \
             -X POST -u omusil24:${GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN} -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
@@ -38,6 +39,7 @@ test-alpine:
   image: $CI_REGISTRY/infrastructure/qore-test-base/qore-test-base:develop-alpine
   script:
     - |
+        printf "[rippy]\n  host = rippy\n  port = 1433\n  tds version = 7.4" > /etc/freetds.conf
         if test/docker_test/test-alpine.sh; then
           curl "https://api.github.com/repos/qorelanguage/${REPO_NAME}/statuses/${CI_COMMIT_SHA}" \
             -X POST -u omusil24:${GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN} -H "Content-Type: application/json" \

configure.ac

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 
 # AC_PREREQ(2.59)
-AC_INIT([qore-sybase-modules], [1.1],
+AC_INIT([qore-sybase-modules], [1.2],
         [David Nichols <david@qore.org>],
         [qore-sybase-modules])
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([no-dist-gzip dist-bzip2 tar-ustar])

docs/mainpage.dox.tmpl

@@ -252,10 +252,15 @@ exec get_values :string output, :int output");
     version of this driver should offer an alternative Datasource method allowing explicit stored procedure execution
     through ct-lib RPC functions, which will allow output parameters to be returned.\n\n
     There are other issues with data types, character encoding, and more when using this driver; please see
-    http://www.freetds.org for more information.
+    http://www.freetds.org for more information
 
     @section sybasereleasenotes Release Notes
 
+    @subsection sybase_1_2 sybase Driver Version 1.2
+    - detect and automatically set the server character encoding for MS SQL server connections to ensure that strings
+      with invalid encodings are never sent to or retrieved from the server
+      (<a href="https://github.com/qorelanguage/qore/issues/4710">issue 4710</a>)
+
     @subsection sybase_1_1 sybase Driver Version 1.1
     - fixed a bug handliing \c DATETIME2 column data
       (<a href="https://github.com/qorelanguage/qore/issues/4401">issue 4401</a>)