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Re: odbc with unicode support

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Jos Geerts:

> Hi all,
> 
> Is it a big effort to change the existing odbc driver to support
> unicode (I need this to access databases with unicode data - chinese,
> japanse, cyrillic - character sets?
> 
> Currently the driver/extention automatically change the data to ansi
> characterset, and that makes the data unusable as the data cannot be
> converted from multibytes to just a single byte.
> 
> I did try to cast the data as "binary" and that worked, I retrieved
> the data as-is, no conversion was done, so the unicode data was
> complete. The problem is that not all sql languages support binary
> (Impala SQL does not support it), so it's not always possible to cast
> the data as binary.
> 
> So I'm a bit stuck here... :-(

Maybe this helps:

<https://www.easysoft.com/support/kb/kb01072.html>


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Arno Welzel
https://arnowelzel.de

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odbc with unicode support "Jos Geerts" <jgeert1@its.jnj.com> - 2018-11-20 08:56 +0100
  Re: odbc with unicode support Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2018-11-20 09:22 +0100
    Re: odbc with unicode support Jos Geerts <jgeert1@its.jnj.com> - 2018-11-20 08:40 +0000

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