Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
Internationalizing Applications

Using Databases

Using databases in applications you intend to internationalize and localize is not difficult. It only requires following a few rules and knowing a few techniques. This chapter discusses the rules and techniques.

This chapter contains the following sections:

OpenEdge database name restrictions
Empty databases
Scanning databases for character conflicts
Converting a database and its data to a different code page
Loading table dump files
Specifying -cpinternal and -cpstream with database utilities