Open Client and Open Server now support the Chinese character set (GB 18030). SDK and Open Server products support the Chinese character set for version 12.5 ESD#8 or later, which is downloadable from the Sybase Web site for all licensed customers of SDK and Open Server. There are no required changes to the installation process or to the system tables. Once you download, the definition information is available and stored in the SYSCHARSETS directory.
Client-side conversion is not supported.
This feature adds support for a new Chinese character set to follow the standard GB 18030-2000, which is a new Chinese encoding standard first published in March 2000. It is a rather complex MBCS with 1-byte, 2-byte, and 4-byte forms. In this release, support for GB 18030 includes the following major functionalities:
Provides the ability to receive, store, and process all characters defined in GB 18030-2000 at server-side. It provides support for all functionalities that apply to character datatypes (char, varchar, and text).
Supports GB 18030 at client-side through Open Client and Unicode-based conversion.
Provides binary sort order as the server’s default sort order.
Provides language-specific sort orders, such as “gbpinyin,” through the use of built-in functions sortkey() and compare().
Provides EURO symbol support.
Currently, support exists for the previous GB standards GB 2312-1980 and GBK (an extension to GB 2312). You can find references to the new Chinese language support in the Open Client and Open Server International Developer’s Guide.
DB-Library does not support Chinese character
sets.
