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Client APIs and toolsYou can use the HCL OneDB™ implementation of client APIs to develop applications for HCL OneDB™ database servers.
GLS User's GuideThese topics describe the Global Language Support (GLS) feature available in HCL® OneDB® products.The HCL OneDB™ GLS User's Guide describes the Global Language Support (GLS) feature available in HCL® OneDB® products.
GLS fundamentalsThe Global Language Support (GLS) feature lets HCL® OneDB® products handle different languages, cultural conventions, and code sets for Asian, African, European, Latin American, and Middle Eastern countries.
Character-representation conventionsThe examples in this documentation use ASCII characters to represent both single-byte and multibyte characters. Multibyte characters are usually ideographic (such as Chinese characters). Multibyte and single-byte characters are represented abstractly.
Single-byte charactersSingle-byte characters are represented as a series of lowercase letters.

Single-byte characters

Single-byte characters are represented as a series of lowercase letters.

The format for representing one single-byte character abstractly is a. Here a stands for any single-byte character, not for the letter a itself.

The format for representing a string of single-byte characters is a...z. Here a stands for the first character and z stands for the last character in the string. For example, if the string Ludwig consists of six single-byte characters, the following format represents this six-character string abstractly:

abcdef

The letter s does not show in examples that represent strings of single-byte characters. The letter s is reserved as a symbol to represent a single-byte white space character.