Reconfiguring the Character Set, Sort Order, or Message Language

Changing SAP ASE’s default character set, sort order, or message language involves extracting the data, installing the new character set, sort order, or message language, shutting down and restarting the server, and reloading the data. For procedures on how to configure the character set, sort order, or message language for a new server, see the configuration documentation for your platform.

Back up all databases in SAP ASE before and after you change character sets or sort orders. After you back up your databases, use bcp to copy the data in and out of your databases if:

You cannot reload your data from a database dump once you have reconfigured the default character set and sort order (unless both old and new character sets use a binary sort order and no conversion is required between the old and new character sets).