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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.
Multibyte charactersThe appearance of multibyte characters in text, examples, or diagrams are represented abstractly.

Multibyte characters

The appearance of multibyte characters in text, examples, or diagrams are represented abstractly.

The following convention shows abstractly how multibyte characters are stored:

A¹...Aⁿ

One to four identical uppercase letters, each followed by a different superscript number, represent one multibyte character. The superscripts show the first to the nth byte of the multibyte character, where n has values 2 - 4. For example, the following symbols represent a multibyte character that consists of 2 bytes:

A¹A²

The following notation represents a multibyte character that consists of 4 bytes (the maximum length of a multibyte character):

A¹A²A³A⁴

The next example shows a string of multibyte characters in an SQL statement:

CREATE DATABASE A¹A²B¹B²C¹C²D¹D²E¹E²;

This statement creates a database whose name consists of five multibyte characters, each of which is 2 bytes long.