Apple Final Cut Server - Manual (Page 124)

124 Part II General Administration
About Unicode Support
Final Cut Server can store textual metadata as Unicode using UTF-8 encoding. This
means it can support a wide range of multi-byte character sets including a range of
Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters. Unicode metadata can be stored, modified,
and searched through the Final Cut Server user interface.
Further, the Final Cut Server client can use the local settings of the operating system on
which it is installed. In addition to displaying Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters,
the Final Cut Server client uses local settings such as date and number formats when
displaying data.
When writing media to storage devices, Final Cut Server is constrained by the
capabilities of each device and the application programming interface (API) of each
device. At present, Final Cut Server supports Unicode characters on Filesystem and
Contentbase devices. See “
Device Type Details ” on page 174 for more information on
these device types.
From a technical perspective, the Final Cut Server server uses UTF-32 internally to
represent all its metadata and converts to UTF-8 when writing to the catalog, transmitting
metadata to the client user interface, or to the agents that interact with devices (where the
devices support Unicode). When talking to devices, the Final Cut Server server transcodes
files to the specified encoding format each time the files are moved to or from the device.
Encoding support for devices includes all types of Unicode, the Windows encodings, and
the common Chinese, Japanese, and Korean encodings.
Note: It is important to install the native language version of Java on any computer
that requires Unicode support in the user interface. It is also important to have
operating system support for the language and character set. Refer to Mac Help and
the Sun Java websites for further details.