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Using Multi-byte Code Pages : Issues specific to multi-byte code pages : User-defined characters : Guidelines for using user-defined characters
 
Guidelines for using user-defined characters
Caution: If an OpenEdge application has a tier (client, server, and so on) built earlier than Version 9.0B or 9.1A, you must alter the lead-byte table to include the lead-bytes of the Gaiji characters.
When you use user-defined characters, remember to:
*Go into the Japanese.datCONVMAP file and, in the lead-byte attribute table, set the value of each byte in the range 240 through 252 to 1, to indicate a lead byte. You might only have to set some of them, depending on how many user-defined characters you want.
The Japanese.datCONVMAP file resides in the OpenEdge/prolang/convmap directory. For more information on CONVMAP files, see Understanding Character Processing Tables.
*Start each database server with the -cpinternal startup parameter set to SHIFT-JIS.
*Start each client with the -cpinternal startup parameter set to SHIFT-JIS.
*Connect to a SHIFT-JIS database.