Re: Need a way to configure encoding

Can someone please help me answer this question?

Regards,
Abhishek Kumar

On Tue, Aug 6, 2024 at 3:01 PM Abhishek Kumar <abhishek(dot)aak0(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am working on a linux ODBC C++ application and using psqlodbc driver. I
> need help on the below few questions.
>
> 1. Is there a way in which we can make the psqlodbc code work according to
> the client encoding?
> For example, if my application encoding is UTF-8, i would want the types
> and strings returned to my application in UTF-8. I think by default, it is
> returning UTF-16 strings.
>
> 2. The default behaviour of the driver is when we have a VARCHAR column in
> a table, it returns SQL_WVARCHAR as the type. Is there a possibility where
> we can configure something (maybe at connection string), such that it
> returns SQL_VARCHAR for VARCHAR column and not SQL_WVARCHAR ?
>
> Please help me in answering the above questions.
>
> Regards,
> Abhishek Kumar
>