Before you select a data code page, review the selection
guidelines to determine the appropriate data code page for a Rational® ClearQuest® schema
repository.
These selection guidelines help determine the best code
page for your ClearQuest environment.
- The data code page is supported by IBM Rational ClearQuest and
is tested and approved for use with it. These code pages are listed
in Supported data code pages.
- The data code page is supported by the vendor databases that you
use for all Rational ClearQuest databases
within a single schema repository. You must set the vendor database
character set of each user database to match the Rational ClearQuest data
code page for its schema repository. For more information, see Vendor database character sets and the Rational ClearQuest data code page.
- All operating systems that run a Rational ClearQuest application
must run one of the supported local character sets (locales).
- After you set the Rational ClearQuest data
code page, users cannot enter characters that are not included in
that data code page into the database records. However, characters
that are excluded from the data code page can be entered in a file,
such as a word-processing document, that is attached to the record.
- In some cases, a Rational ClearQuest data
code page contains a subset of the characters in the corresponding
vendor database character set. For example, in Japanese, the eucJP
local character set contains the characters for half-width katakana.
However, the corresponding data code page (60932) does not contain
those characters. For a list of characters that are excluded from
each Rational ClearQuest data
code page, see Rational ClearQuest character exclusion lists.
- Rational ClearQuest validates
data that is entered from integrations with other Rational products and with Microsoft Project. For more information,
see Rational ClearQuest integrations and data code pages.
- If you are upgrading to version 8.0, it might be necessary to
convert characters in an existing database to match the characters
in your preferred data code page.