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  1. Preface
  2. Understanding Domains
  3. Managing Your Account
  4. Using Informatica Administrator
  5. Using the Domain View
  6. Domain Management
  7. Nodes
  8. High Availability
  9. Connections
  10. Connection Properties
  11. Schedules
  12. Domain Object Export and Import
  13. License Management
  14. Monitoring
  15. Log Management
  16. Domain Reports
  17. Node Diagnostics
  18. Understanding Globalization
  19. Appendix A: Code Pages
  20. Appendix B: Custom Roles
  21. Appendix C: Informatica Platform Connectivity
  22. Appendix D: Configure the Web Browser

Administrator Guide

Administrator Guide

Code Page Overview

Code Page Overview

A code page contains the encoding to specify characters in a set of one or more languages. An encoding is the assignment of a number to a character in the character set. You use code pages to identify data that might be in different languages. For example, if you create a mapping to process Japanese data, you must select a Japanese code page for the source data.
When you choose a code page, the program or application for which you set the code page refers to a specific set of data that describes the characters the application recognizes. This influences the way that application stores, receives, and sends character data.
Most machines use one of the following code pages:
  • US-ASCII (7-bit ASCII)
  • MS Latin1 (MS 1252) for Windows operating systems
  • Latin1 (ISO 8859-1) for UNIX operating systems
  • IBM EBCDIC US English (IBM037) for mainframe systems
The US-ASCII code page contains all 7-bit ASCII characters and is the most basic of all code pages with support for United States English. The US-ASCII code page is not compatible with any other code page. When you install either the PowerCenter Client, PowerCenter Integration Service, or PowerCenter repository on a US-ASCII system, you must install all components on US-ASCII systems and run the PowerCenter Integration Service in ASCII mode.
MS Latin1 and Latin1 both support English and most Western European languages and are compatible with each other. When you install the PowerCenter Client, PowerCenter Integration Service, or PowerCenter repository on a system using one of these code pages, you can install the rest of the components on any machine using the MS Latin1 or Latin1 code pages.
You can use the IBM EBCDIC code page for the PowerCenter Integration Service process when you install it on a mainframe system. You cannot install the PowerCenter Client or PowerCenter repository on mainframe systems, so you cannot use the IBM EBCDIC code page for PowerCenter Client or PowerCenter repository installations.

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