FreeTDS Development Group

[Nick Gorham <nick AT lurcher.org>]

vorlon AT 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

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Nick Gorham
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