Progress manages the character set used for data storage through code page settings that apply to the entire database. For any one database, only a limited set of characters is available, as defined by the code page. This means that some combinations of language data cannot be stored together. Currently, the two supported multiple-language scenarios are:

Multiple languages with incompatible code pages in the same database are not supported.

Multiple-language display is complicated by the various technology layers involved in the UI architecture. Data stored in the Progress database can be passed through Java, HTML, and XML before being viewed by the user in a Web browser. In some cases the data transformation also requires code page mapping.

To ensure that data can be passed correctly without corruption, QAD has defined appropriate code page configurations based on the Progress code page in use. This adds an additional constraint for UI installations. Your database must use the Progress code page that QAD supports. Supported Progress Code Pages lists the code page supported for each supported language.

If your database is using a code page other than the one specified in Supported Progress Code Pages, additional changes may be required to ensure that data displays correctly. You should contact QAD Support for help with these changes.

If your database code page is the standard code page for your language, you should be able to install the UI using MFG/UTIL without any changes.

Information for mapping code page values from Progress settings to those used by different interface layers is maintained in encoding.dat.