Progress
Database Administration
Guide and Reference


Specifying International Character Sets

A Progress international database has one character set (code page) associated with all its data. This database character set information is stored in the database.

In addition, a database server has an operating character set. The operating character set is used for every character operation such as, compare and substring. You can use the Internal Code Page (-cpinternal) international startup parameter, to define the operating character set. If you do not use -cpinternal, the default operating character set is iso8859–1.

Specifying the Operating Character Set

Use Progress Explorer to look up the operating character set name in the database configuration properties windowpane and reset it appropriately.

To specify the operating character set from the command line, use the PROSERVE administration utility. For example:

proserve db-name -cpinternal character-set-name  

Specifying the Character Set Name Of the Database Log File

To specify the output character set for database log messages, use Progress Explorer to look up the log character set (LogCharacterSet) name in the database configuration properties windowpane and reset it appropriately.

Otherwise, use the Log Character Set (-cplog) international startup parameter with the PROSERVE administration utility. For example:

proserve db-name -cplog character-set-name  

For more information on character sets and character conversion, see the "PROUTIL Utility" section in Database Administration Utilities."


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