Adaptive Server contains formal support for the Unicode character set. The datatypes provided are unichar, univarchar, and unitext. They comprise 2-byte characters expressed in Unicode. Adaptive Server provides conversion functions between Unicode data and all other datatypes, consistent with current handling of char and varchar datatypes. By supporting these datatypes, Component Integration Services is able to present a view of all enterprise character data expressed in Unicode. Character data from mainframes and all other foreign or legacy systems is converted to Unicode when columns of type unichar or univarchar are used to defined columns in proxy tables.
The Component Integration Services features below are affected by these new datatypes:
