Although the focus of this chapter is on character set conversion between clients and Adaptive Server, there are two other places where you may need character set conversion:
Between the client and a terminal
Between the client and a file system
Figure 10-4 illustrates the paths and command line options that are available in the standalone utilities isql, bcp, and defncopy.
Figure 10-4: Where character set conversion may be needed
As described earlier, the -J or /clientcharset command line option specifies the character set used by the client when it sends and receives character data to and from Adaptive Server.
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