Re: Foreign language support in Informix Online

> Is it possible to develope a "Chinese" database application using > Informix Online running in a Unix environment? Only the input screen > and printed report has to be in Chinese. How about using a front-end > tool that can support foreign languages? However some fields in the > tables has to store Chinese characters as well. I think it's ok in V7. We are about to try this, but not with Chinese, and from what I recall of the manual I read, there are additional data types of nl_char and nl_varchar (may be wrong names..) which can accept 'extended' character sets, or sets which do not use the ascii order for sorting. The locale has to be set prior to database creation, and that locale affects all nl_<type> columns, so drastically mixed language databases are out. -- =-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-= Andy Lennard andy@kontron.demon.co.uk =-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=-~-=