International Replication Design Considerations

Replication Server and Replication Manager (RM), the Sybase Central plug-in for managing your replication system, both support international environments.

When you design a replication system for an international environment, understand the impact that language, character set, and sort order settings have on your system. Replication Server and the RM provide great flexibility in the configuration of these settings.

• Message Language
  Replication Server allows you to print messages to the error log and to clients in several languages.
• Character Sets
  Replication Server supports all Sybase-supported character sets and performs character set conversion of data and identifiers between primary and replicate sites.
• Sort Order
  Replication Server uses sort orders, or collating sequences, to determine how character data and identifiers are compared and ordered. Replication Server supports all Sybase-supported sort orders, including non-binary sort orders. Non-binary sort orders are necessary for the correct ordering of character data and identifiers in European languages.
• Character Set and Sort Order
  If you change the character set or sort order of Adaptive Server, you must also change the character set or sort order of each Replication Server that manages replication for the server and each associated RSSD that resides on a separate Adaptive Server.
• Summary
  Provides a summary of topics discussed about replication designs.