How to use non Latin charsets (high ASCII, UNICODE, multibyte) with Servoy, ie Chinese , Japanese , Arabic , Hebrew etc etc
IMPORTANT: Servoy does nothing with charsets (no conversion, no mapping, no adjustments, noting), All strings/text in Java are in Unicode which is able to display anything; including chinese,japanese,arabic, etc. In other words: if you use Servoy out of the box it will work with any language on this planet.
If it doesn't work here are some key areas to look at:
1) Database considerations:
-make sure it uses unicode (like UTF8) for character storage
-make sure you use a driver that has UNICODE support
-make sure you inform the driver about your character storage
-by default this is already done for the Servoy Sybase sample databases!
2) Operating system considerations:
2a) Native OS usage: like a Servoy on a Chinese Window XP
-"International" Java Runtime is needed, support for non English languages/charsets, is separate download at Sun website
2b) Non Native OS usage: like a Servoy on a English Window XP displaying Chinese chars
-"International" Java Runtime is needed, support for non English languages/charsets, is separate download at Sun website
-System/OS fonts are needed to display chinese