Kbase 15872: Progress support for Gaiji (user defined) characters.
| Autor |
Progress Software Corporation - Progress |
| Acesso |
Público |
| Publicação |
5/10/1998 |
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Progress support for Gaiji (user defined) characters.
Progress supports User-defined Characters in the Shift-JIS
character set. These characters are also known as Gaiji
or external characters. Gaiji characters have lead-bytes
in the range 240-252 (F0-FC Hex). Tail bytes are the same
as for other SHIFT-JIS characters: 64-126, 128-252
(40-7E, 80-FC Hex).
Because Gaiji characters are user-defined, administrators
must consider carefully whether they are to be included in
a database. Gaiji characters must be defined consistantly
on all systems that have access to the database.
Another thing to keep in mind is that there are no methods
for converting or exchanging Gaiji characters between
character sets.
Because of these issues, Progress does not recognize user
defined characters by default. If you intend to use Gaiji
characters you must first adjust Shift-JIS lead-byte
attribute table in CONVMAP.DAT. Edit this table so that
the values for the lead bytes that you have defined (using
240-252 as the available range) are set to 1.
CONVMAP.DAT is in the DLC\PROLANG directory.
For more information on editing and compiling CONVMAP.DAT
please see Double-byte Enabled Progress manual, section 5.1.2
and the System Administration Guide, Appendix A.
NOTE: Since no methods exist for converting Gaiji characters,
you must run your entire Progress configuration (clients and
servers) with either Shift-JIS or EUCJIS. If you must use
a combination of these two code pages then it is necessary
for you to handle the conversion between Gaiji characters in
the two character sets with 4gl code.
Progress Software Technical Support Note # 15872