Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
Internationalizing Applications

ASCII character data

ASCII characters are numbered 1–127 and can be represented with 7 bits. If you are certain some character data contains only ASCII characters and you know the code page of your current environment, you need to place only the following commands into DLC/startup.pf, the parameter file every local OpenEdge executable reads at startup:

Syntax

-cpinternal codepage-name -cpstream codepage-name

codepage-name

The code page of your current environment.