Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Dave Page wrote:
>> The setup contains 2 drivers here - 'PostgreSQL Unicode' and
>> 'PostgreSQL ANSI'. Did you uninstall the old one before installing
>> the new?
>
> Out of curiosity, why would it be called "ANSI"? Is this particular
> version standardized by ANSI? :)
<http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/05/31/144893.aspx>
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnw32dev/html/ora_apiprog6_topic1.asp>
"The term "ANSI" as used to signify Windows code pages is a
historical reference, but is nowadays a misnomer that continues to
persist in the Windows community."
And "unicode" actually means UCS-2 or UTF-16 (depending on the platform).
