Support for multibyte characters in WebMethod

[souravm00]

Hi All,

I’ll like to know the support available in Web Method 5.1 and higher version for Multibyte Characters.

In that respect I’ll like to know whether

a) Web Method supports langugae specific encodings like Shift_JIS/EUC-JP for Japanese, Big-5 for Chinese etc. ?
b) Doe sit support Unicode encoding ? if yes what is the version of Unicode is supported ?

Regards,
Sourav

[wMusers.Com1 (wMusers.Com)]

Sourav,

The webMethods Broker 6.1 “webMethods Broker readme.htm” file discusses Globalization in section 6.0:

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webMethods Broker 6.1 conforms to the international standards of webMethods and includes support for operation in any country, locale, or language. Support for character encodings and proper formatting, display, and validation of data (such as number and date formats) has been provided throughout webMethods Broker 6.1. webMethods Broker 6.1 complies with the requirements of Unicode Standard 3.0 and later.

If you expect to display non-English data in your webMethods tools, make sure an appropriate font is installed in your operating environment. If you see hollow boxes or black squares where you expect to see non-English data, modify your JRE font.properties file to reference the font. For information on modifying your font.properties file, go to Sun’s Java website. For information on the JRE provided with this release, go to:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/intl/fontprop.html

Or refer to the document located at:

http://www.unicode.org/help/display_problems.html.<!-/quote-!>

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To determine whether an earlier version of Broker supports the same level of globalization, refer to the readme.htm or release notes for that version. Registered customers or partners can obtain those documents, as well as any other product documentation, from the Bookshelf section on Advantage.

WM Users members using multi-byte character set versions (e.g. Japanese and Chinese) of webMethods products can comment on their experience.

HTH,

Mark