[egenix-users] Enabling unicode?

[Chuck Bearden]

I have been having unicode problems from time to time with mx.ODBC,
libiodbc (3.51.2), and FreeTDS (0.63.dev.20041026 at the moment) on
some recent flavor of free Red Hat.

Being a little slow on the uptake, I only just noticed that there is a
constant HAVE_UNICODE_SUPPORT.  I just checked it:

$ python
Python 2.3.3 (#1, Apr 12 2004, 14:00:40)
[GCC 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import mx.ODBC.iODBC
>>> mx.ODBC.iODBC.HAVE_UNICODE_SUPPORT
0
>>>

When I grep out all lines "^#" from mx/ODBC/iODBC/Setup.in, I get this:

*shared*


mxODBC  mxSQLCodes.c mxODBC.c \
        -DMAL_DEBUG \
        -DWANT_UNICODE_SUPPORT \
        -DMISSING_SETUP


which is I think the default.  So, although I wanted Unicode, I didn't get it.

Did I fail to build iODBC or FreeTDS in such a way as to enable
mx.ODBC to define HAVE_UNICODE?  Or did I do something else wrong?

Thanks,
Chuck