Re: ODBC: Unicode conversion from UTF-8 to UCS-2

>>I'm using the latest SAPDB ODBC driver (version 7.4.03.pre11 
>>for Linux)
>>to access a SAPDB 7.4.3 based database from PHP. The database instance
>>is an Unicode instance (created with paramters _UNICODE=YES and
>>DEFAULT_CODE=UNICODE).
>>
>>I'm working on a web-app which receives UTF-8 encoded 
>>multilingual form 
>>data that should be inserted UCS-2 encoded into this 
>>database. (Because 
>>UPPER/LOWER/ORDER BY/etc. must work correctly on these strings.)
>>
>>I tried to...
> 
> The ODBC driver expects in the ODBC-Wide-API (the functions with
> a trailing "W" like SQLConnectW) UCS2 strings in a 2-bytes data type.
> SQLWCHAR is defined in sqltypes.h, line 335:

He's talking about PHP, and i just looked it up:
PHP doesn't offer access to the unicode-aware functions of the ODBC API.