Table 1 lists the data code pages that Rational® ClearQuest® supports and the languages associated with them.
Starting in version 7.1.1, ClearQuest supports the UTF-8 (8-bit Unicode Transformation Format) code page for the DB2 and Oracle database sets. This means that ClearQuest supports multilingual data storage for characters from different languages. There are some practical limitations to using UTF-8 as the ClearQuest data code page. See Supported vendor database character sets for details.
For SQL Server, ClearQuest does not support a Unicode code page. This means that ClearQuest can only support storing characters in a SQL Server database that are from one character set. ClearQuest does not support multilingual data storage for SQL Server from different character sets.
Code page | Languages |
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65001 (UTF-8) | Any |
20127 (US_ASCII) | English |
Safe Shift-JIS (60932) | Japanese |
932 | Japanese |
936 | Simplified Chinese |
949 | Korean |
950 | Traditional Chinese |
1250 (Eastern Europe) | Czech, Croatian, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian |
1251 (Cyrillic) | Belarussian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian |
1252 (Western Europe) | Spanish, Danish, German, English, French, Italian, Norwegian, Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish, |
1253 | Greek |
1254 | Turkish |
1255 | Hebrew |
1257 (Baltic) | Estonian, Lithuanian, Latvian |
Each data code page corresponds to a Microsoft code page. A small number of characters from the Microsoft Windows code pages are excluded from the corresponding ClearQuest data code pages to support correct operations across all supported vendor databases.
In addition, the following sections describe special considerations applying to particular data code pages.
Some schema repositories created with a previous version of ClearQuest run against vendor databases that use the EUC-JP encoded vendor database character set. EUC-JP is the standard code page for Linux and the UNIX system in Japanese, but it can also be used in some Japanese databases on Windows. To take advantage of extended code page support in version 7.0 and later, support for data code page 60932, also called safe Shift-JIS, is available.
Data code page 60932 is a ClearQuest data code page that consists of the characters in common to Japanese code page 932 (the standard for Windows) and EUC-JP. This data code page blocks input of any characters that cannot be safely converted to EUC-JP. It is used to ensure data integrity when storing Japanese data in a database server on the UNIX system and Linux that uses the EUC-JP vendor database character set.