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List:       freetds
Subject:    [freetds] Re: Unicode
From:       Nick Gorham <nick () lurcher ! org>
Date:       2001-06-09 19:15:52
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vorlon@netexpress.net wrote:

> "Don't break anything" certainly applies to existing APIs that are defined to
> return (char *).  Are there other APIs defined (perhaps by Microsoft) that
> will return UCS2 (or wchar_t *)?  If not, perhaps FreeTDS should be leading
> the way...
>

The ODBC 3.51 Unicode API uses UCS2.

The MS SQL Server ODBC driver only deals with UCS2 Unicode, and leaves it to the
driver manager to convert to 8 bit for non unicode apps. AFAIK it does this by
loosing the 8 MSB's

--
Nick Gorham
When I die, I want to go like my grandfather did, gently while sleeping,
and not like his passangers, screaming in a panic, looking for the
inflatable raft. -- Seen on ./




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