The driver is fully Unicode enabled. The driver supports the following Unicode formats according to platform:
Windows platforms: UCS-2/UTF-16.
UNIX and Linux platforms: UTF-8 and UTF-16.
The driver supports the Unicode ODBC W (Wide) function calls, such as SQLConnectW. This allows the Driver Manager to transmit these calls directly to the driver. Otherwise, the Driver Manager would incur the additional overhead of converting the W calls to ANSI function calls, and vice versa.
See "UTF-16 Applications on UNIX and Linux" for related details. Also, see "Internationalization, Localization, and Unicode" for a more detailed explanation of Unicode.
Windows platforms: UCS-2/UTF-16.