[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: RE: Capturing and storing Chinese into progress DB

[Torben]

We converted everything from iso8859-x/125x codepages many years ago, so everything is utf-8. (Database, AppServer, Client, Source code, input files, output files ....) This works with Chinese. (And any other of the code-pages we have tested, except Turkish) Both source code, database and input/output files contains Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Cyrillic, Western European and more characters) To get characters to display correctly you need to install/use font, that supports all the characters you want to display. (Otherwise you will not see the character or a box in place of the real character).

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