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:
Table 38 contains a complete list of supported session character sets.
Supported Session Character Sets |
ASCII |
UTF8 |
UTF16 |
LATIN1252_0A |
LATIN9_0A |
LATIN1_0A |
KANJISJIS_0S |
KANJIEUC_0U |
KANJIEBCDIC5035_0I |
TCHBIG5_1R0 |
SCHGB2312_1T0 |
HANGULKSC5601_2R4 |
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.