ODBC Driver for Teradata supports the Unicode Data Dictionary. It is a Unicode Driver that seamlessly supports both Unicode and ANSI applications.
ODBC Driver for Teradata communicates with Teradata Database using the following supported session character sets:
- Unicode UTF-8 and UTF-16 session
- Double-byte Chinese and Korean
- EUC and SJIS double-byte Kanji and single-byte Katakana
- ASCII and Latin session
- Single byte Thai, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Turkish and Vietnam session
The following table contains a complete list of supported session character sets.
| Supported Session Character Sets |
|---|
| ASCII |
| UTF8 |
| UTF16 |
| LATIN1252_0A |
| LATIN9_0A |
| LATIN1_0A |
| LATIN1252_3A0 |
| KANJISJIS_0S |
| KANJIEUC_0U |
| KANJIEBCDIC5035_0I |
| KANJI932_1S0 |
| TCHBIG5_1R0 |
| SCHGB2312_1T0 |
| SCHINESE936_6R0 |
| TCHINESE950_8R0 |
| HANGULKSC5601_2R4 |
| HANGUL949_7R0 |
| ARABIC1256_6A0 |
| CYRILLIC1251_2A0 |
| HEBREW1255_5A0 |
| LATIN1250_1A0 |
| LATIN1254_7A0 |
| LATIN1258_8A0 |
| THAI874_4A0 |
Unicode ODBC API plus Unicode session character sets combine to provide full support for Unicode applications. Unicode data flows from a Unicode ODBC application to the driver and onto Teradata Database without any loss of data due to conversions.