Sybase 12.4.2 - Manual (Page 364)

International language and character set tasks
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International language and character set tasks
This section groups together the tasks associated with international language
and character set issues.
Finding the default collation
If you do not explicitly specify a collation when creating a database, a default
collation is used. For IQ databases, the default collation is always
ISO_BINENG.
Configuring your character set environment
This section describes how to set up your computing environment so that
character set issues are handled properly. If you set your locale environments
properly, then you do not need to turn on character set translation between
client and server.
❖ To configure your character set environment:
1 Determine the default locale of each computing platform in your
environment. The default locale is the character set and language of each
computer. On Windows operating systems, the character set is the ANSI
code page.
For how to find locale information, see “Determining locale information”
on page 345.
2 Decide whether the locale settings are appropriate for your environment.
For more information, see “Understanding collations” on page 328.
3 If the default settings are inappropriate, decide on a character set,
language, and database collation that matches your data and avoids
character set translation.
For more information, see “Avoiding character-set translation” on page
338.
4 Set locales on each of the machines in the environment to these values.
For more information, see “Setting locales” on page 346.
5 Create your database using the default collation. If the default collation
does not match your needs, create a database using a named collation.