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Internationalization Guide
Converting a Database and Its Data To a Different Code Page
You can convert a database and its data from one code page (the source code page) to another code page (the target code page) if one or both of the following conditions are true:
You might want to convert a database and its data to a particular code page if the current code page does not contain characters that the application needs and that another code page contains. For example, code pages 1252 and ISO8859–15 contain characters that ISO8859–1 does not, as you saw in Table 6-1.
Another reason is to convert a database and its data to a particular code page is if the database’s data comes exclusively from a device with that code page. For example, if an airline reservations database gets its data exclusively from a terminal that uses the ISO8859–1 code page, you might want to convert the database and its existing data to ISO8859–1.
To convert a database and its data to another code page, run the PROUTIL utility with the CONVCHAR CONVERT qualifier. The syntax is:
dbname
The name of the database.
new-codepage-name
The name of the target code page.
For more information on code-page conversion, see Understanding Code Pages." For the complete syntax of the PROUTIL utility, see the Progress Database Administration Guide and Reference .
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