Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
Internationalizing Applications

Starting database servers

You can start a database server in two ways:

By invoking PROSERVE from a command line or from an OpenEdge client.
By using Progress Explorer, a graphical application.

When an OpenEdge client invokes PROSERVE, PROSERVE starts a database server on behalf of the client. For a 4GL client, PROSERVE starts a 4GL database server. For an SQL client, PROSERVE starts an SQL database server.

If a client invokes PROSERVE with startup parameters, such as -cpinternal, -cpstream, and -cpcoll, PROSERVE passes these values to the 4GL or SQL database server. The 4GL database server uses these values. The SQL database server, however, ignores some of these values. Specifically, the SQL database server ignores values for -cpinternal and -cpcoll passed from PROSERVE, using instead the internal code page and collation table of the database. However, the SQL database server does use the values for -cpstream and for the other code-page-related startup parameters (other than -cpinternal and -cpcoll) passed from PROSERVE.

When you start a database server using Progress Explorer, you can specify a code page and a collation by using the Explorer’s administrative features.

Table 7–1 lists localizable startup parameters and settings related to SQL and 4GL database servers.

Table 7–1: Localizable startup parameters and settings 

Command line startup parameters	Command line startup parameter defaults	Progress Explorer settings	Progress Explorer setting defaults
-cpinternal	ISO8859-1	Code page (internal)	ISO8859-1
-cpstream	IBM850	NA	IBM850
-cplog	IBM850	Log character set	ISO8859-1
-cpcase	BASIC	Case table	BASIC
-cpcoll	BASIC	Collation table	BASIC
-convmap	DLC/convmap.cp	Conversion map	DLC/convmap.cp

Progress Explorer also lets you set the log file’s font. This allows you to choose a font that displays international characters correctly.

To set the log file’s font:

From Progress Explorer, view a log file.
From the Action menu or pop-up, select Font.... Alternatively, on the toolbar, click on the Font icon.

The standard Windows Font Selection dialog box appears.

In the Font Selection dialog box, choose a font, then click OK.

Progress Explorer displays the log file using the font you selected.