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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 and multibyte characters in the same stringFor a multibyte code set, a string might be composed of both single-byte and multibyte characters.

Single-byte and multibyte characters in the same string

For a multibyte code set, a string might be composed of both single-byte and multibyte characters.

To represent mixed strings, this publication combines the formats for multibyte and single-byte characters. The next example represents a string with four characters, where the first and fourth characters are single-byte characters, and the second and third characters are multibyte characters that consist of 2 bytes each:

aA¹A²B¹B²b