RE: character set issues on porting ODBC drivers

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The ODBC driver tries to connect as a Unicode client.

You might want to debug sys/src/pr/vpr10c.c:bool Ascii8Copy. If the password field contains garbage characters, the driver thinks that it's not ASCII.

Daniel Dittmar

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Daniel Dittmar
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