Progress
Version 9
Product Update Bulletin


New Initial Value Segment No Convert (–isnoconv) Startup Parameter

The –isnoconv startup parameter disables a code page conversion that Version 9.1 provides and that previous versions do not. You might consider using –isnoconv when all three of the following conditions occur:

  1. A 4GL program contains character variables initialized from text literals.
  2. The text literals contain international characters.
  3. The code page of the r-code does not match the code page of internal memory (–cpinternal).

When you run earlier versions of Progress under these conditions, when Progress reads text literals from r-code into internal memory, Progress does not convert the code page. To compensate for this, programmers often preconvert international characters in text literals to -cpinternal.

When you run Version 9.1 under these conditions, when Progress reads text literals from r-code into internal memory, Progress converts the code page from –cprcodein to –cpinternal. This code-page conversion might cause the following problems:

To disable this code-page conversion in Progress Version 9.1, use the –isnoconv startup parameter.


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