Character Translation. Applications and data sources often contain data stored in different character formats. The BASIS ODBC Driver provides the capability to define an ODBC translator and code page to reconcile the character formats, and recommends using the Microsoft Code Page Translator for this task, as follows.

64-bit Windows has some surprising and counterintuitive setup and behavior around 32-bit and 64-bit ODBC. Many 64-bit environments still support 32-bit applications, and these require 32-bit ODBC drivers and DSNs, so it's important to understand how this all works.
Both the 32-bit and 64-bit ODBC Administrator are named odbcad32.exe. They are differentiated by their filesystem location.
The 32-bit ODBC Administrator is found at %systemdrive%/Windows/SysWoW64/odbcad32.exe. This controls 32-bit ODBC drivers, which are required by 32-bit client applications. (The 32-bit ODBC Administrator cannot be accessed through the Control Panels interface; the Data Sources (ODBC) control panel is the 64-bit ODBC Administrator.)
Counterintuitively, the 64-bit ODBC Administrator is found at %systemdrive%/Windows/System32/odbcad32.exe. This controls 64-bit ODBC drivers, which are required by 64-bit client applications. (The 64-bit ODBC Administrator can also be accessed through the Control Panels interface, as the Data Sources (ODBC) control panel.)
| 64-bit Windows | 32-bit Windows | |
| 64-bit Administrator | or Start -> Control Panels -> Data Sources (ODBC) | n/a |
| 32-bit Administrator | not a control panel | or Start -> Control Panels -> Data Sources (ODBC) |
Note that the 32-bit Administrator, and all 32-bit ODBC applications (typically installed to %systemdrive%/Program Files (x86)/), will list 64-bit User DSNs (that is, DSNs based on 64-bit ODBC drivers) -- even though these DSNs and drivers cannot be used by the 32-bit tools/applications.
Likewise, the 64-bit Administrator, and all 64-bit ODBC applications (typically installed to %systemdrive%/Program Files/), will list 32-bit User DSNs (that is, DSNs based on 32-bit ODBC drivers) -- even though these DSNs and drivers cannot be used by the 64-bit tools/applications.

System DSNs will only be seen by the applications and tools which can use them -- 32-bit DSNs for 32-bit applications, and 64-bit DSNs for 64-bit applications. For this reason among others, we strongly advise using only System DSNs in 64-bit environments.

It can be tempting -- and in some ways useful -- to use identical names for 32-bit and 64-bit DSNs. This is fine -- but you then need to be very careful to keep the 32-bit and 64-bit DSN configurations in sync, as different output resulting from different configurations can lead to undesired and unexpected results in the end, especially in scenarios where tools invisibly mix 32-bit and 64-bit components (as some versions of Microsoft SQL Server and Visual Studio are known to do).

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