Setting a locale for legacy data

Data from previous versions of Rational® DOORS® might not have a locale property. Users with the manage database power can set a default locale for any legacy data that does not have a locale property.

Before you begin

Open the database properties. For more information see Configuring the Rational DOORS database.

About this task

Legacy textual attributes that do not have a locale property inherit their locale property from the Legacy Data Locale. If the Legacy Data Locale has not been set, the locale is derived from the current client session.

Legacy module names and descriptions, and user and group information that include, for example, accented characters must be interpreted according to a code page to be displayed correctly.
  • Data that has been saved by Rational DOORS 6.0a is interpreted as UTF-8 Unicode data.
  • Data that has been saved by other previous versions of Rational DOORS is interpreted using the default code page for the Legacy Data Locale. If the Legacy Data Locale has not been set, the Latin-1 code page is used.

Procedure

On the General tab, select the locale that you want to use for legacy data from the Legacy data locale list.

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