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1. Unicode Support

The Timestream ODBC Driver supports the Unicode ODBC interface. It does not support the non-Unicode interface.

1.1. Unicode encoding at ODBC Layer

The definition of the Unicode at the ODBC layer is defined as SQLWCHAR. There are platform specific implementations.

  • Windows: The SQLWCHAR is defined as wchar_t (2-byte)
  • MacOS (iODBC): The SQLWCHAR is defined as wchar_t (4-byte)
  • Linux (unixODBC): The SQLWCHAR is defined as unsigned short (2-byte)

In terms of our driver, the entry point is the entry_point.cpp/h. For each API entry point, it calls the equivalent in the odbc namespace.

Here we pass the SQLWCHAR pointer to/from entry_point and odbc.

However, from the odbc namespace to the rest of the driver, we encode data in UTF-8 encoding. The reason being is that all the strings in Timestream use UTF-8 encoding. So to minimize the number of conversions, we choose to use UTF-8 encoding at this layer.

The environment variable ANSI_STRING_ONLY is used to indicate the data source has only ANSI characters by setting it to TRUE. As a result, characters will be copied from the data source to the user buffer directly without converting UTF8 to wstring and then do a mapping from unicode to ANSI characters.

graph TD
    A(BI Tool) -- SQLWCHAR --> B(ODBC Driver Adapter)
    B -- SQLWCHAR --> C(entry_point.cpp)
    C -- SQLWCHAR --> D(odbc.cpp)
    D -- char* UTF-8 --> E[(Timestream Service)]
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1.2. Logging

Log files are encoded in UTF-8 format with BOM (byte-order-mark).

1.3. Literals

When creating and comparing literals with the C/C++ data type of [const] char*, ensure to use the literal prefix: u8. For example : u8"你好".

When creating use the NewSqlWchar(L"你好") function. When comparing literals in SQLWCHAR , first convert to string (utility::SqlWcharToString()) and then compare as UTF-8 literal u8"你好".