Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>So really, what is the difference between the ANSI and the Unicode driver?
>
There are 2 kind of applications, Unicode applications and ANSI
applications.
Unicode applications uses UCS-2(4) encoding and call Unicode ODBC APIs.
>
>The Unicode driver sets the client encoding to UTF-8, but does that mean that
>the client application has to use UTF-8
>
Though Unicode applications are preferable for Unicode drivers,
>or does the driver manager convert
>that?
>
wise driver managers may invoke ANSI <-> UCS-2(4) conversions when ANSI
applications call ANSI ODBC APIs for the Unicode driver.
regards,
Hiroshi Inoue
