An independent library of Unicode-based routines called the Unicode Infrastructure Library (Unilib) is included to facilitate character set conversion. This supports the conversion of any Sybase-supported character set to or from the Unicode (equivalent to ISO 10646 standard) character set in UTF-8 form.
Unilib conversion is available for all character sets supported by Sybase. This library enables character conversions for the char, varchar, and text datatypes.
When an application calls cs_convert to convert from one character set to another, Unilib functions are invoked internally to complete the conversion.
Applications that uses the custom conversion routines, can continue to use cs_manage_convert to specify a conversion function. This custom routine will override the Unilib character set conversion.
