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Multiple Client Code Pages on Different Platforms

This scenario illustrates how the NLS API supports transcoding with multiple client code pages and one data source code page, all representing the same language.

All code pages in this scenario represent Japanese; however, the same transcoding takes place between the various platform-specific code pages of any language.
  1. The WebFOCUS Reporting Server is configured to communicate with three client code pages. All Reporting Servers can support multiple client code pages.
  2. The WebFOCUS Reporting Server is configured to read data with one server code page. All Reporting Servers can have only one server code page setting.
  3. A request from the client is passed through the NLS API and transcoded into the server code page.
  4. Data from the data source is passed through the NLS API and transcoded into the appropriate client code page for the client making the request.
  5. The result is the transparent transcoding of local language characters for all four clients and one data source.

Diagram showing how four different code pages can be handled

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