Open Client/Server products provide functionality to fully support the development of international systems. Using Client-Library, Server-Library, and CS-Library, an application can localize on any supported platform to use:
A specific language and character set for error messages
A specific character set when converting strings from another character set
A specific collating sequence to use when sorting or comparing strings
Specific datetime formats and values
DB-Library supports one language and character set at
a time for error messages. For details, see “Writing internationalized DB-Library applications”.
Both Adaptive Server and Open Server applications support localized Open Client™ applications. When a client connects to a server, the server determines whether or not it can support the required character set conversion (if any).
Because Open Client and Open Server support the Unicode Standard, an Open Server application can support any client, regardless of what character set it uses. At the present time, Adaptive Server does not include Unicode support and so may not be able to support clients using certain character sets. For example, an English server using the Roman8 character set cannot support a client application using the EUC JIS character set.
Unicode support is planned for Adaptive Server; in the meantime, you can use an Open Server application to perform character set conversion for Adaptive Server. For more information about this type of system, see “Using Open Server as a conversion gateway”.
