The SAP MaxDB ODBC driver supports Unicode. As of versions 7.4.03.32 and 7.5.00.11 respectively, two ODBC drivers are available per version.
Operating System |
ODBC Driver (ASCII) |
ODBC Driver (Unicode) |
---|---|---|
Microsoft Windows |
sdbodbc.dll |
sdbodbcw.dll |
Unix and Linux |
libsdbodbc.a|so |
libsdbodbcw.a|so |
The ASCII version of the ODBC driver always connects to the database kernel via ASCII.
The Unicode version of the ODBC driver connects to ASCII database kernels via ASCII and with Unicode database kernels via UCS2.
To process Unicode data, the ODBC driver internally uses UCS-2 (two bytes). On platforms that use four bytes for WCHAR_T data, when you compile with the GNU C compiler, you can use an option to force processing of WCHAR_T data with two bytes.
Example
gcc -fshort-wchar [...]
Applications that do not require the functions of a driver manager can be linked statically with the ODBC driver.
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