| From: | Marc Herbert <Marc(dot)Herbert(at)continuent(dot)com> |
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| To: | pgsql-odbc(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: ANSI and Unicode driver |
| Date: | 2006-02-21 09:50:23 |
| Message-ID: | khjacclt50g.fsf@meije.emic.fr |
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Hiroshi Inoue <inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp> writes:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>
>>So really, what is the difference between the ANSI and the Unicode driver?
"ANSI" actually just means "8 bits" in MS-speak.
<http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/05/31/144893.aspx>
And "Unicode" actually means UCS-2/UTF-16.
Things started to become clearer for me once I found the
translation...
> There are 2 kind of applications, Unicode applications and ANSI
> applications.
> Unicode applications uses UCS-2(4) encoding and call Unicode ODBC APIs.
Has anyone already seen some real 4-bytes/UCS-4 ODBC applications
running out there, or only 2-bytes/UCS-2/UTF-16 applications like
Microsoft implies through all its documentations?
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