Hiroshi Inoue <inoue@tpf.co.jp> writes:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>
>>So really, what is the difference between the ANSI and the Unicode driver?
"ANSI" actually just means "8 bits" in MS-speak.
<http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/05/31/144893.aspx>
And "Unicode" actually means UCS-2/UTF-16.
Things started to become clearer for me once I found the
translation...
> There are 2 kind of applications, Unicode applications and ANSI
> applications.
> Unicode applications uses UCS-2(4) encoding and call Unicode ODBC APIs.
Has anyone already seen some real 4-bytes/UCS-4 ODBC applications
running out there, or only 2-bytes/UCS-2/UTF-16 applications like
Microsoft implies through all its documentations?