Converting to UTF-8

before compile you have to transform all the code-source files (*.p,*.i,*.w) from iso to UTF-8

You can use a system tool or a simple 4GL application as:

INPUT STREAM lsIN FROM VALUE(lc_filename)
      CONVERT TARGET "utf-8" SOURCE "iso8859-1".

after this take progress client:

-cpcase basic
-cpcoll basic
-cpstream utf-8
-cpinternal utf-8
-cpterm utf-8
-charset utf-8
-cplog utf-8
-cpprint utf-8

and compile all code.

*** note that a CHUI application dosen't work on UTF-8, only GUI/Webspeed/batch applications

are supported.

Rares,

Thank you for your reply.

Is recompilation absolutely necessary?

Will our application work properly without recompilation but changing client parameters as mentioned in your post?

no

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compiled with iso8859-15 running on UTF-8 mode give you:

attached image .

my mistake ....

in the fact IT WORKS, you don't need to recompile ... I've tested on windows

and it works.

On linux I forget to change the Konsole encoding type

rvkanten wrote:
Do we have to recompile our application after converting our databases from IS8859-1 to UTF-8?
Platform: Windows
OpenEdge: 10.1C, 10.2B

Basically not.

As a matter of fact, you have to be careful when recompiling your applciation in this case.

Your database contents are now UTF-8, but your sources are probably still in 1252 format.

In your new situation this means that you want to set -cpinternal to utf-8 but you have to be careful with -cpstream.

At compile time -cpstream needs to be set to 1252 so your sources compile properly.

At run time -cpstream may be set to utf-8 if you also want utf-8 output to disk (Office 2007 for example) but that has nothing to do with your concerns above.

HTH Peter