The following bug has been logged online:

Bug reference: 1818
Logged by: Josef Springer
Email address: Josef.Springer@joops.com
PostgreSQL version: 8.0.3
Operating system: Win2k
Description: ODBC: Wrong encoding when reading string coumns
Details:

Database encoding: UNICODE
Client encoding: UNICODDE
Database is used via ODBC.
Transporting via ODBC:
Writing string columns content is encoded UNICODE (UTF8).
Readed string columns are not encoded as UNICODE (UTF8). One byte per
character is transported

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