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, refer to Internationalization, localization, and Unicode in the Progress DataDirect for ODBC Drivers Reference for a more detailed explanation of Unicode.