About national language support

National language support in Rational® ClearQuest® comprises the following topics:

Code page and national language support terminology
The term code page is used to refer to a number of different concepts. Conversely, the set of concepts to which code page can refer can also be described by a number of other terms. The concept and implementation of code pages also differ significantly between Windows, Linux, and the UNIX system.
Extended code page support
Rational ClearQuest provides extended code page support.
National language support
Rational ClearQuest provides different levels of support for national languages, depending on which ClearQuest application you use.
National language character data support
Mixed character-set deployments
Rational ClearQuest supports only one character set for a database set. However, Rational ClearQuest does allow connections to the database set even if the local code page of the client is different from theRational ClearQuest data code page of the database set. This support is called a mixed-character-set deployment.
Supported data code pages
This topic discusses supported data code pages.
Supported vendor database character sets
Each Rational ClearQuest data code page has a corresponding character set for each supported vendor database: Oracle, DB2®, and SQL Server.
Locales associated with supported Rational ClearQuest data code pages
Rational ClearQuest character exclusion lists

Parent topic: Code pages and national language support