note 123797 added to function.odbc-connect

Under Windows odbc_connect (and PDO ODBC) apparently uses the Windows locale to handle input and output from e.g. MS access and MS SQL Server databases. This causes lots of headaches if one is using other than ASCII characters. Work-round solutions like utf8_encode and mb_convert both fails. The solution I fund working is to perform the following changes to Windows Control Panel > Region > Administrative > Change system locale >Check '<i>Use Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide language support.</i>' ---- Server IP: 208.43.231.9 Probable Submitter: 185.85.3.142 (proxied: 62.198.47.124) ---- Manual Page -- http://php.net/manual/en/function.odbc-connect.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/123797 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/123797/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/123797/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/123797/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/123797/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/123797/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/123797/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/123797 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/123797 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php