Adaptive Server supports character set conversion between native character sets belonging to the same language group. If the server has a native character set as its default, the clients’ character sets must belong to the same language group. Figure 11-1 is an example of a Western European client/server system. In this example, the clients’ character sets and the Adaptive Server default character set all belong to language group 1. Data is correctly converted between the client character sets and the server default character set. Since they all belong to the same language group, the clients can view all data on the server, no matter which client submitted the data.
Figure 11-1: Character set conversion when server and client character sets belong to the same language group
For a list of the language groups and supported character sets, see Table 10-1.
