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IBM Domino Designer Basic User Guide and Reference
Basic product usage information and programming language reference information.
Lotus® Connectors
Lotus® Connectors provide native access to a wide variety of DBMS products, ODBC, the platform File system, Enterprise Resource Planning systems, and Transaction Processing systems.
LSX for Lotus® Connectors
LotusScrip Extensions for Lotus® Connectors (LC LSX) enhances the power of Notes® by extending its scripting to data outside of Notes through the use of Lotus Connectors. The programming model is independent of the individual connector. This eliminates the need to learn each individual system, while at the same time allowing experienced users to access the individual features of a specific system.
Appendix D Character Sets
This appendix provides information about character sets, including character set translation, character sort order, and a list of the character sets supported by the Lotus® Connector LotusScript® Extensions (LC LSX).
Character Set Considerations
Considerations when working with character sets are listed as follows.

IBM Domino Designer Basic User Guide and Reference
Basic product usage information and programming language reference information.
- Application Design
  Welcome to the Application Design section of Domino® Designer Help.
- Domino® Designer templates
  The templates described in the following table are available with Domino® Designer and are specifically intended for use by application developers.
- Importing to and exporting from views
- Developing applications using MAPI
  Domino® Designer Release 6 and later supports the messaging application program interface (MAPI), which allows mail integration between Domino and a MAPI-compliant messaging application, such as Microsoft™ Outlook, Microsoft Office applications, or user-written C++ programs.
- Features to avoid using in Web applications
  Developers creating applications specifically for the Web, or for the dual purpose of serving Notes® and Web clients, should review the following tables for features that are not supported on the Web.
- URL commands for Web applications
  You have a variety of options for programming a Web site. You can directly manipulate objects such as documents or views in an application using Domino® URL commands. Adding Domino URL commands as HTML in forms gives users shortcuts for navigating databases and performing other tasks quickly.
- Application Management
  Welcome to the Application Management section of Domino® Designer Help.
- Composite Applications - Design and Management
  Composite applications are a key element in a service-oriented architecture (SOA) and contextual collaboration strategy. The ability to create and edit composite applications lets you easily integrate different types of components and technologies.
- DB2® Access views
  Domino® Designer includes two types of design elements to assist you in managing data contained in DB2® enabled Notes® databases:
- Programming Overview and User Interface
  This section contains general guidelines and examples that show where to use Java, LotusScript, and the formula language.
- Formula Language
  This section documents the formula language.
- LotusScript® Language
  Welcome to the LotusScript® Language section of Domino® Designer Help.
- LotusScript/COM/OLE Classes
- Java/CORBA Classes
  This section documents the Java/CORBA classes.
- Lotus® Connectors
  Lotus® Connectors provide native access to a wide variety of DBMS products, ODBC, the platform File system, Enterprise Resource Planning systems, and Transaction Processing systems.
  - Lotus® Connectors and Connectivity Guide
  - LSX for Lotus® Connectors
    LotusScrip Extensions for Lotus® Connectors (LC LSX) enhances the power of Notes® by extending its scripting to data outside of Notes through the use of Lotus Connectors. The programming model is independent of the individual connector. This eliminates the need to learn each individual system, while at the same time allowing experienced users to access the individual features of a specific system.
    - Chapter 1 Introduction
      This chapter provides an introduction to the LotusScript® Extension for Lotus® Connectors (LC LSX) and explains the organization of this manual.
    - Chapter 2 LCConnection Class
      This chapter provides information about the LCConnection class methods and properties.
    - Chapter 3 LCCurrency Class
      This chapter provides information about the LCCurrency class methods and properties.
    - Chapter 4 LCDatetime Class
      This chapter provides information about the LCDatetime class methods and properties.
    - Chapter 5 LCField Class
      This chapter provides information about the LCField class methods and properties.
    - Chapter 6 LCFieldlist Class
      This chapter provides information about the LCFieldlist class methods and properties.
    - Chapter 7 LCNumeric Class
      This chapter provides information about the LCNumeric class methods and properties.
    - Chapter 8 LCSession Class
      This chapter provides information about LCSession class methods and properties.
    - Chapter 9 LCStream Class
      This chapter provides information about the LCStream class methods and properties.
    - Appendix A Error Messages
      This appendix provides information about error messages.
    - Appendix B Connector Property Tokens
      This appendix provides information about the property tokens used in the LotusScript® Extensions (LC LSX).
    - Appendix C Connector Properties
      This chapter provides information about connector properties. These properties are used when creating connections using the Lotus® Connector LotusScript® Extensions.
    - Appendix D Character Sets
      This appendix provides information about character sets, including character set translation, character sort order, and a list of the character sets supported by the Lotus® Connector LotusScript® Extensions (LC LSX).
      - International Character Set Translation
        Not all computer systems treat text data the same. Systems around the world have different character sets and sending text data from one country to another may not yield expected results. As well, different database products treat this problem differently.
      - Forcing LEI or DECS to Use a Character Set as Native
        IBM® Lotus Enterprise Integrator® (LEI) and Domino® Enterprise Connection Services (DECS) determines the native character set on the local machine during startup and uses this setting whenever the native character set is required. LEI and DECS can be forced to use a different character set as native by setting the EINativeText variable in the notes.ini file to the suffix of an LEI text stream format.
      - Character Sort Order in LEI
        IBM® Lotus Enterprise Integrator® (LEI) cannot control the sort order specified in the databases that it accesses. If the sort orders used in two databases are not the same, mismatches can arise during Replication activities, causing excessive insert/delete operations and thereby affecting performance. The use of the Order MetaConnector for databases which sort differently is designed to solve sort order differences. Replication also provides an option for case-insensitive string comparison when excessive insert/delete pairs occur during replication between databases that use case-insensitive sorting.
      - Character Set Considerations
        Considerations when working with character sets are listed as follows.
      - List of Supported Character Sets
        The list is given as text stream format constants. Any of these values may be used as a stream format for a text stream when creating scripts using the IBM® Lotus® Connector LotusScript® Extensions (LC LSX) To indicate the character set on the local machine, use the constant LCSTREAMFMT_NATIVE. When providing a character set on the IBM Lotus Enterprise Integrator® (LEI) Administrator, use the stream format constant with the prefix "LCSTREAMFMT_" removed. For Domino® Enterprise Connection Services (DECS) see "Forcing LEI or DECS to Use a Character Set as Native" in this chapter.
    - Appendix E Additional Scripting Capability for LEI
      This appendix provides information about additional methods and properties provided for IBM® Lotus Enterprise Integrator® (LEI) with the LCSession class that expand on the IBM Lotus® Connector LotusScript® Extensions (LC LSX).
  - Accessing external databases through LS:DO
    LS:DO has been in maintenance mode since R5. Developers are advised not to use it. Developers should use the Lotus® Connector LSX for (LCLSX) when accessing external data sources.
- Javadoc™ for Domino® Designer related APIs
  As part of providing additional Java™ reference documentation, Domino® Designer ships with a help plugin that contains Javadoc™ for additional Domino Designer related APIs.
- Accessibility and keyboard shortcuts
  Accessibility features assist users who have a disability, such as restricted mobility or limited vision, to use information technology content successfully.

Character Set Considerations

Considerations when working with character sets are listed as follows.

When using the Oracle Connector, set the notes.ini variable "EIOracle8NativeText" to a valid Oracle code page to force the translation of all transferred Oracle data to that code page.
Although LEI provides support for the GB18030 character set, some LEI-supported external database systems and OS platforms do not. In order for LEI work with GB18030 character set correctly, you must include the following statement in the notes.ini file on the Domino® server:
EINativeText=GB18030

Note: This variable is obsolete for the Connector for DB2® on IBM® i. Beginning in release 8.0.2, LEI and DECS always use Unicode as the native character set on IBM® I.
When using international character sets such as German, where the comma character is used as the decimal delimiter, the comma character cannot also be used as a list delimiter.