This feature allows the gateway to optionally run in CHAR Semantics mode.

Rather than always describing SQL Server CHAR columns as CHAR(n BYTE), this feature describes them as CHAR(n CHAR) and VARCHAR(n CHAR). The concept is similar to Oracle database CHAR Semantics. You need to specify HS_NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS=CHAR gateway parameter to activate this option. Refer to Initialization Parameters for more detail.