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Chapter 3 Using the TIBCO iProcess Suite in a Multilingual Environment : Globalization Options in the iProcess Suite

Globalization Options in the iProcess Suite
From version 11.1, the TIBCO iProcess Suite supports Unicode (UTF-8) character encoding. At installation time, you can enable UTF-8 support, or continue to use native encoding. See the TIBCO iProcess Engine Installation guide for your operating system for information on setting this option.
Advantages of UTF-8 Encoding
TIBCO iProcess Suite’s support for UTF-8 (or UCS-2 in the case of SQL Server) enables you to work not simply in an international, but in a multi-national environment, using more than one multi-byte character set simultaneously.
This means that one TIBCO iProcess site can host multiple regions. For example, an enterprise operating globally could support data in Chinese, Japanese, Russian and English character sets in the same database. Work can be partitioned so that an end user working in this installation will normal see only work in his or her language:
This is not possible without UTF-8 support because an iProcess Engine installation can support only one native character set. This option also simplifies using external UTF-8 applications. The conversions described in Globalization Support Using Native Encoding are not necessary if the iProcess Engine supports UTF-8.
An additional advantage of using UTF-8 is that WIS searches using wildcard characters are also more consistent. For example, the expected results for filtering work items with the expression a?c would be items such as aac, abc, acc, and so on. However, searches are performed by a comparison of bytes, not characters, so actual results could include a, followed by a Japanese character that includes c in its byte representation, followed by c. This situation is avoided when the iProcess Engine uses UTF-8.
Issues with UTF-8 Encoding
While UTF-8 encoding is more versatile than alternatives, there are some issues of which you should be aware when deciding whether to use this encoding:
For these reasons, if you are using UTF-8 encoding, TIBCO recommends using TIBCO Business Studio for modeling processes, and either TIBCO iProcess Workspace (Browser), or an application that utilizes SSO for processing work items.
iProcess Names
Some internal names are supported in iProcess Engine only as 7-bit ASCII. These names are not normally seen by end-users, and generally do not exceed eight bytes in length. This affects the following items:
If you access these internal names, do not use them to store data that exceeds 7-bit ASCII.

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