Getting Data from Vertica with PHP with wrong Encoding

Question

I'm trying to get data from Vertica DB using php odbc_connect, I have a problem with Russsian text, so for example instead of getting this text Уютная I got an \\x1A\\x1A\\x1A\\x1A\\x1A\\x1A

This is my DNS connection string:

 $dsn = "Driver=Vertica;Server={$host};Port={$port};Database={$database};";
 $this->connection = odbc_connect($dsn, $username, $password);

And this my /etc/vertica.ini file (app runs in debian Jessie):

[Driver]
DriverManagerEncoding=UTF-16
ODBCInstLib = /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libodbcinst.so.1
ErrorMessagesPath=/opt/vertica
LogLevel=4
LogPath=/tmp

I'm using Vertica ODBC driver 7.2.2-0

Any idea how I can fix it?

Thank you !

Answer 1

Temporary solution I found is to wrap the field with URI_PERCENT_ENCODE function (vertica sql function) and in php you do a urldecode.

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