Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
Internationalizing Applications

> ## Using Unicode

> When you adapt an application to a different locale, the character set often changes. One way to deal with multiple character sets is to use multiple code pages, one for each language or group of languages. However, this approach forces you to deal with code-page conversion and code-page incompatibility, explained in Chapter 2 "Understanding Code Pages" and Chapter 8, " Using Multi-byte Code Pages." Another approach is to use a single code page that includes all characters of all languages of the world. This is the idea behind Unicode, which is the focus of this chapter.

> This chapter includes the following sections:

> - Unicode overview

> - Why use Unicode

> - Using Unicode with OpenEdge products

> - Using Unicode with OpenEdge databases

> - Using Unicode with OpenEdge applications

> - Guidelines for using Unicode

> - Unicode support for supplementary characters

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