Open Client and Open Server products provide functionality to fully support the development of international systems. Using Client-Library, Server-Library, and CS-Library, an application can be localized 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.
Adaptive Server Enterprise 12.5 and later support Unicode. You can use an Open Server application to perform character set conversion for earlier versions of Adaptive Server. For more information about this type of system, see “Using Open Server as a conversion gateway”.
