Although the focus of this chapter is on character set conversion between clients and Adaptive Server, there are two other places where you may need character set conversion:
Between the client and a terminal
Between the client and a file system
Figure 11-4 illustrates the paths and command line options that are available in the standalone utilities isql, bcp, and defncopy.
Figure 11-4: Where character set conversion may be needed
The -J or /clientcharset command line option specifies the character set used by the client when it sends and receives character data to and from Adaptive Server.