Understanding Character Sets in Software

Each piece of software works with a character set, which is a set of symbols, including letters, digits, spaces, and other symbols.

For general information about software issues related to international languages and character sets, including single-byte and multibyte character sets, see SQL Anywhere 11.0.1 > SQL Anywhere Server – Database Administration > Configuring Your Database > International languages and character sets > Understanding character sets.

• Code pages in Windows
  Many languages have few enough characters to be represented in a single-byte character set. In such a character set, each character is represented by a single byte: a two-digit hexadecimal number.
• How the Collation Sequence Sorts Characters
  The database collation sequence includes alphabetic ordering of letters, and extends it to include all characters in the character set, including digits and space characters.