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Re: ODBC Alternative for UniCode

From: Rick Brown <rick_at_onramp.net>
Date: 1997/04/23
Message-ID: <rick.52.004C1E40@onramp.net>#1/1

In article <335DE146.73F1_at_wang.com> John Moriarty <john.moriarty_at_wang.com> writes:

> thanks for the reply. I will look into Oracle Objects for OLE. One
>question, how would you be able to tell if OCIW32.dll supported UniCode
>by using DumpBin?

Whoops. Goes to show you I should check these things a little closer before I post. I had originally guessed that OCI special-cased Unicode support under NT, but it looks like it's being handled using the NLS_LANG facility like any other "international" character set. Based on that, I would argue that OCI _has_ to support Unicode, since it does support other double-byte encodings through the same API.

If it was special-cased, I would have expected to see ANSI and "wide" versions of the OCI functions; dumping OCIW32.DLL shows no such distinction.

Rick Brown
rick_at_onramp.net Received on Wed Apr 23 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT

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