Re: Numeric datatype doesn't match those from older driver version ?

From: "Adam M" <gnuman1(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Hiroshi Inoue" <inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>
Cc: pgsql-odbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Numeric datatype doesn't match those from older driver version ?
Date: 2008-12-17 20:10:43
Message-ID: 84b37b360812171210s23ba6c13i7affe2a70b36637a@mail.gmail.com
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On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 6:50 PM, Hiroshi Inoue <inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp> wrote:
> You can handle the UTF-8 database with Unicode or
> ANSI version driver.
> If you would handle the (var)char data as UTF-8
> strings, please use the ANSI driver.
> If you would handle the (var)char data as UTF-16
> strings, please use the Unicode driver.

I did not know that! I've always *assumed* that ASCII version was for
ASCII databases only. ASCII generally means 7-bit encoding, not 8-bit
like UTF-8.

Maybe a better name for the drivers would be,
psqlodbc.msi
psqlodbc-multibyte.msi

and most Windows users (I hope) would assume what you wrote.

- Adam

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