You must consider a number of factors
to select the appropriate data code page for a
Rational® ClearQuest® schema
repository:
- The data code page is supported by IBM Rational ClearQuest and has
been 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 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, but the corresponding
data code page (60932) does not contain those characters. For a list of characters
excluded from each Rational ClearQuest data
code page, see Rational ClearQuest character exclusion lists.
- Rational ClearQuest validates
data 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 7.0, you might need to convert characters
in an existing database to match the characters in your preferred data code
page. For more information, see How upgrading existing databases can affect the choice of a Rational ClearQuest data code page