Code Pages in Web-based Computing

Internet or intranet products, such as WebFOCUS, often have their components installed on different computers. These computers can have different operating systems. Since code pages are platform-specific, components use different code pages, even when processing the same language.

If client and server are using different code pages, a transcoding service must convert the binary values for each letter from one code page to the other. For example, a transcoding service must take the binary value of the letter A on the server code page, and change it to a different binary value for the letter A on the client code page.

The following diagram illustrates the generic code page architecture for web-based computing.

In this topic, server refers to a WebFOCUS Reporting Server. Client can refer to any of the following components that connect to a Reporting Server:

• The WebFOCUS Common Gateway Interface (CGI), ISAPI, or Java servlets.
• App Studio.
• A third-party product.