The following Unicode characters are supported:
Input method editors (IMEs) are enabled in Rational Synergy dialog boxes, so you can enter the range of characters supported by the IMEs. IBM® verified Rational Synergy with the standard IMEs supplied by the operating system vendors; third-party IMEs were not tested.
In some contexts, Rational Synergy allows use of external viewers and editors to display or edit the contents of string and text attributes. The CLI provides this facility. For example, users can use the ccm attr -m command to edit any text attribute value (subject to the usual permissions checks). In all cases, the text sent to the external viewers and editors is in the default system encoding, and the text returned from the editor is assumed to be in that same encoding. In many locales, this means that characters from other locales is lost or modified. For example, an attribute containing both Chinese and Japanese characters cannot be edited using ccm attr -m on a Japanese system with the Shift JIS encoding. The Chinese characters are lost or substituted by incorrect Japanese characters.
For general information about encodings for Rational Synergy files and attributes, see File encodings.