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[breaking] odbc-api will now use narrow function calls by default on non-windows systems. This assumes that the ODBC driver on that platform uses UTF-8 encoding. This is usually the case as many Linux systems use an UTF-8 locale. Outside of windows the wide function calls are usually less battle tested on drivers. Downstream artefacts like arrow-odbc and odbc2parquet therefore have been compiling with the narrow flag on non-windows systems for quite a while now to opt into the behavior which most likely works by default. However if somebody had a non-windows platform with a non-utf 8 local and a driver which actually could use UTF-16, he could not set appropriate compiler flags to revert the narrow feature added by these crates. Since the default behavior for each platform is now triggered by odbc-api itself, downstream artefacts can overwrite it both ways. E.g. using the narrow flag on windows to get some speed, if they know their target platform has a UTF-8 local configured. Or the other way around using the wide flag on a Linux system to e.g. handle special character in column names, which only seem to work with the wide variants of the drivers. So if you used odbc-api previously on Linux without any flags it did by default use the wide function calls. It now uses the narrow ones by default. If you want the old behavior just specify the wide feature flag. For windows users nothing breaks.

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