Sybase 12.4.2 manual 337, To use character translation for database messages

CHAPTER 9 International Languages and Character Sets

Client application users may see messages from the database as well as data from the database. Some database messages, which are strings from the language library, may include placeholders that are filled by characters from the database. For example, if you execute a query with a column that does not exist, the returned error messages is:

Column column-namenot found

where column-nameis filled in from the database.

To present these kinds of information to the client application in a consistent manner, even if the database is in a different character set from the language library, the database server automatically translates the characters of the messages so that they match the character set used in the database collation.

❖To use character translation for database messages:

•Ensure that the collation for your database is compatible with the character set used on your computer, and with the character set used in the Adaptive Server IQ language resource library. The language resource library differs among different localized versions of Adaptive Server IQ.

You must check that the characters of interest to you exist in each character set.

Messages are always translated into the database collation character set, regardless of whether the -ctcommand-line option is used.

A further character set translation is carried out if the database server -ctcommand-line option is used, and if the client character set is different from that used in the database collation.

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