Re: UNICODE

From: "Inoue, Hiroshi" <inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>
To: FAU <fau(at)email(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-odbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: UNICODE
Date: 2013-07-10 03:27:35
Message-ID: 51DCD4A7.4070404@tpf.co.jp
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Hi,

(2013/07/10 1:29), FAU wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to understand how (unix)ODBC and psqlodbc work together
> regarding UNICODE.
>
> So from what I understand is that ODBC UNICODE is/was inherently
> UCS-2LE.

Currently UTF-16LE or UTF-16BE according to the endianness of the
machine.

> Does the UNICODE driver version (which is psqlodbcw.so I
> assume) expect/send UCS-2LE or (as I read somewhere) UTF-8, or does it
> expect/send whatever the back-end database is setup to?

The unicode driver expects UTF-16 not UTF-8.
If you are to pass/accept UTF-8 string parameters, use the ANSI
version of the driver and set client_encoding to 'UTF-8'.

> Does the driver work the same way on Win and GNU/Linux regarding
> UNICODE?

Yes.

regards,
Hiroshi Inoue

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