Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
Programming Interfaces

Handling codepage conversions

The SAX-writer will output the XML document in the codepage specified by the ENCODING attribute (UTF-8 by default). However, the character input to the document may use several codepages:

CHARACTER variables use the codepage set by the Progress parameter -cpinternal.
LONGCHAR variables use the codepages set for them.

The SAX-writer handles these issues automatically by converting all character data to the UTF-16 codepage during processing before converting the XML output to the correct specified codepage.