Install SQLSRV driver on Linux, or other UTF-8 capable driver?

Question

SQLSRV is the only driver for PHP that is capable of storing UTF-8 strings into two-byte columns (NVARCHAR instead of VARCHAR) which is cu

Answer 1

I Googled a bit more after I read this and I may have found the answer. On Debian:

# apt-get install freetds-common freetds-bin unixodbc php5-mssql

That will install everything PHP needs for Free TDS and allows me to connect using the sqlsrv driver.