Using iProcess Suite in a Single-Byte Native Encoding Environment

The following diagram shows iProcess Suite in an international environment that uses a single-byte native character encoding environment (in this example, Latin-1).

In this example:

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When text is entered, in either Spanish or French, into the external applications, the data is encoded using UTF-8. UTF-8 is used to send the data from the external applications to the web server.

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The web server converts the data from UTF-8 to Latin-1 and sends the data to iProcess Engine.

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iProcess Engine inserts the data into the iProcess Database.

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The iProcess Database stores the data as Latin-1.

Note that:

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iProcess Engine supports a variety of character sets as its native character encoding. However, iProcess Engine still needs to handle data in other encodings. Therefore, iProcess Engine provides the functionality to convert different character encodings into its native character encoding.

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It does not matter if the machines hosting the iProcess Database, iProcess Engine, and iProcess Web Services Server and Client Plug-ins are all in separate locations to the machines hosting the external applications.