Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
Internationalizing Applications

Inside the multi-byte application

Besides input code and output code, applications have internal code. The primary responsibility of internal code is to process characters and character strings which, of course, can be multi-byte.

This section discusses the following topics:

Distinguishing characters, bytes, and columns
Techniques for working with multi-byte characters
4GL support for processing multi-byte characters