Character Set Support

Replication Server supports all Sybase-supported character sets and performs character set conversion of data and identifiers, as needed.

The guidelines apply to character set conversion:

Replication Server, like all Sybase software, cannot convert between single-byte character data and multibyte character data.
Identifiers, such as table and column names, that contain multibyte characters or single-byte characters with the high bit set must be enclosed in double quotes.
XML text data must either be encoded in a single-byte character set, or must be encoded in the same character set as Adaptive Server.

Specifying Character Sets
You specify character sets with the rs_charset parameter in the Replication Server configuration file. You can also specify a character set for writing the Replication Server configuration file. This parameter is CONFIG_charset.
Character Set Conversion
Replication Server performs character set conversion on data and identifiers between primary and replicate databases. However, Replication Server does not perform character set conversion between incompatible character sets. If the character sets are compatible, but one or more characters are not common to both character sets, a question mark (?) is substituted for the unrecognized characters.

Parent topic: Support for Adaptive Server