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

[gus bjorklund]

On Feb 5, 2019, at 9:20 AM, Elsworth Burmeister wrote: > > Sorry the codepage is iso8859-1 > > > ISO-8859-1 is an 8 bit (single byte) code page designed for western europe and the US. It does not work for chinese characters without some sort of custom hack and much programming to encode/decode the hack. You should use a multi-byte code page that can handle chinese characters. Two that come to mind are UTF-8 and GB2312. Others are listed here: documentation.progress.com/.../openedge-support-for-multi-byte-code-pages.html doc about using multi-byte character sets is here: documentation.progress.com/.../using-multi-byte-code-pages.html

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