Do You Use ODBC?

Recently I've been running into more issues with ODBC not properly handling UTF-8 and blob data across the various databases that Flourish supports. I'm very strongly considering dropping ODBC support due to the fact that:

• None of the ODBC database drivers pass the tests on any OS but Windows
• There is no way to tell DB2 to use the UTF-8 encoding with ODBC
• Oracle via ODBC fails with UTF-8 so some characters must be escaped using CHR()
• CURRENT_TIMESTAMP isn't implemented for Oracle when using ODBC
• The pdo_odbc driver in PHP 5.3 returns seemingly random data from an MSSQL blob column

Does anyone currently use an ODBC connection with fDatabase?

Update

7/31/10 - As of revision 879, ODBC support is no longer provided in any of Flourish's database classes. ODBC support was removed since it was holding back perfect UTF-8 support, caused stability issues on some servers and did not appear to be used by anyone.