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Strings and Character Encodings

Rendezvous software uses strings in several roles:

•	String data inside message fields

•	Field names

•	Subject names (and other associated strings that are not strictly inside the message)

•	Certified delivery (CM) correspondent names

•	Group names (fault tolerance)

 

All these strings (in wire format) use the character encoding appropriate to the ISO locale of the sender. For example, the United States is locale en_US, and uses the Latin-1 character encoding (also called ISO 8859-1); Japan is locale ja_JP, and uses the Shift-JIS character encoding.

When two programs exchange messages within the same locale, strings are always correct. However, when a message sender and receiver use different character encodings, the receiving program must translate between encodings as needed. Rendezvous software does not translate automatically.

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