In general, Japanese character sets are compatible. However, Hankaku Katakana characters, although they exist in both the eucjis and sjis character sets, cannot be converted. Converting data that contains Hankaku Katakana characters between eucjis and sjis does not work. This conversion problem occurs with character datatypes and the text datatype and is documented in Chapter 10, “Configuring Client/Server Character Set Conversions,” of the Adaptive Server Enterprise System Administration Guide Volume 1.
This conversion problem affects both Adaptive Server and the Sybase Open Client/Open Server libraries. Because Replication Server uses these libraries for all conversions, this problem also affects Replication Server.
In Replication Server, this type of failure is treated in the same way as is the case of a single character missing from the target character set. The remainder of the conversion succeeds and replication proceeds, and problem characters are replaced by question marks in the target data area. There is currently no way to escape this restriction with the Sybase connectivity libraries. However, in Adaptive Server, if you turn on trace flag number 2402, you can remove this restriction.
