Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
Internationalizing Applications

Code-page trailers

Some table dump files contain code-page trailers, which tell OpenEdge the code page of the table dump file’s data. When you load such a table dump file, OpenEdge reads the code-page trailer, determines the code page of the file’s data, and interprets the data correctly. In the current version of OpenEdge, when you dump a database using the Data Dictionary utility, the resulting table dump file contains a code-page trailer.

Figure 6–1 shows a typical code-page trailer with the code page name “IBM850.”

. . . PSC filename=customer records=00000033 ldbname=xl timestamp=1994/03/30-10:20:03 numformat=. dateformat=mdy-1900 cpstream=ibm850 . . . 0000006570

Figure 6–1: A typical code-page trailer

Other table dump files do not contain code-page trailers. When you load such a table dump file, you must tell OpenEdge the code page of the file’s data by using the -cpstream startup parameter. To determine the code page of a table dump file that lacks a code-page trailer, see Chapter 2, " Understanding Code Pages."