International Character Set Support - ODBC Driver for Teradata

ODBC Driver for Teradata User Guide

Product
ODBC Driver for Teradata
Release Number
15.10
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2018-10-07
dita:id
B035-2526
lifecycle
previous
Product Category
Teradata Tools and Utilities

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
  • Table 38 contains a complete list of supported session character sets.

     

    Table 38: 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.