MySQL DB character set is utf8 === ERROR at line 1: ORA-28500: connection from ORACLE to a non-Oracle system returned this message: [unixODBC][MySQL][ODBC 5.1 Driver]Can't initialize character set utf8mb4 (path: /usr/local/mysql/share/charsets/) {HY000,NativeErr = 2019} ...
And as both of you pointed out, connector odbc v5.1.8 only knew about "utf8". I am going try and recompile the Connector/ODBC v8.x or some lower v5.3.x version source (after I get the c compiler working on this AIX server). ...