Peter Eisentraut wrote:

>So really, what is the difference between the ANSI and the Unicode driver?
>

There are 2 kind of applications, Unicode applications and ANSI
applications.
Unicode applications uses UCS-2(4) encoding and call Unicode ODBC APIs.

>
>The Unicode driver sets the client encoding to UTF-8, but does that mean that
>the client application has to use UTF-8
>

Though Unicode applications are preferable for Unicode drivers,

>or does the driver manager convert
>that?
>

wise driver managers may invoke ANSI <-> UCS-2(4) conversions when ANSI
applications call ANSI ODBC APIs for the Unicode driver.

regards,
Hiroshi Inoue

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