+*********************************
+bdrem - Birthday reminder by mail
+*********************************
+Birthday reminder that sends out mails (Text and HTML).
+
+It can also generate tables on your console/shell output and
+normal HTML pages.
+
+
+
+=============
+Configuration
+=============
+Copy ``data/bdrem.config.php.dist`` to ``data/bdrem.config.php`` and
+adjust it to your liking.
+
+
+MS SQL server
+=============
+Configure the date format in ``/etc/freedts/locales.conf``::
+
+ [default]
+ date format = %Y-%m-%d
+
+Also set the charset to UTF-8 in ``/etc/freedts/freedts.conf``::
+
+ [global]
+ # TDS protocol version tds version = 8.0
+ client charset = UTF-8
+
+Restart Apache afterwards.
+
+Use ``dblib`` in the DSN::
+
+ dblib:host=192.168.1.1;dbname=Databasename