How to migrate to UTF-8 databases??

Posted by LegacyUser on 29-Nov-2000 09:48

We are in the final stage of migration Progress8.3

to v9.1.We have Chinese Japaneese and French

versions of our application.In V 8.3 we use

differenr(Chinese, Japanese..)code page versions

of our database for each client. Now we create

UTF-8 codepage version of our database(we dump it

and then load into empty Utf-8 database).We are

going to recompile our application using UTF-8

database.What else should be done? What code

page should be set in client,local or UTF-8?. Our

application use 2 databases-the first we distributed and the second,local,created in the client. If we build .PL library using UTF-8 database,is it possible for application to use two

different databases-UTF-8 codepage andsecond with local codepage?. Where can we get more information about using UTF-8 database?

Thanks in advance to allwho can help!!

Inna.

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Posted by LegacyUser on 18-Dec-2000 14:01

Inna,

To upgrade a Progress database to Unicode you may use:

1) Method 1:

Copy Empty Unicode DB from: DLC/prolang/utf/empty

Dump and Load

Compile and map the word break table to DB

proutil -C wbreak-compiler differenr(Chinese, Japanese..)code page versions

of our database for each client. Now we create

>UTF-8 codepage version of our database(we dump it

and then load into empty Utf-8 database).We are

>going to recompile our application using UTF-8

database.What else should be done? What code

>page should be set in client,local or UTF-8?. Our

application use 2 databases-the first we distributed>and the second,local,created in the client. If we build

>.PL library using UTF-8 database,is it possible for application

>to use two> different databases-UTF-8 codepage andsecond with local

>codepage?. Where can we get more information about using

>UTF-8 database?>Thanks in advance to allwho can help!!

>Inna.

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