About code page conversion

To communicate with DevOps Code ClearCase®, Rational® ClearQuest®, and the user interface, the base ClearCase integration uses character strings to represent query results and association information. When clients and servers use only ASCII data, the communication is simple. But if characters require more than single-byte ASCII representations (for example, to provide accented or multiple-byte characters for other languages), the integration must process strings that are encoded in different code pages. For example, strings that are sent between the client and the server must be converted from the "local" code page used on the client to a more universal multiple-byte representation (for example, UTF-8 encoding form) on the Rational ClearQuest Web server.