Re: Character conversion with CLI?

Posted in 1997

Allan Gould — Tue, 22 Jul 1997 21:26:11 -0700 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Richard Spitz wrote: [snip] > What I need is a translation module in the ODBC driver that translates > the Windows "o umlaut" to the ASCII "|" character etc. and vice versa. > There is an option in the "ODBC INFORMIX 7.2 Advanced Driver Setup" > that lets me choose a translation table. I tried that and picked > "MS Codepage Translation Program" with the option "Windows Latin 1 > (1252)/437 (English)", but that gave me an error message when I first > tried to receive data that the translation DLL could not be found. Our ODBC driver ("SQL-Retriever") will happily do the character translation that you seek. I've seen it working quite happily with French characters i.e. along similar lines. Take a look at http://www.vision.sco.com/products/sqlretriever/ for more details of the product and a downloadable eval. For more info/queries, e-mail ukvision@sco.com Allan Gould (allang@sco.com)