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TIBCO Rendezvous® 8.8.0

# 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 correspondent names

| • | Group names (fault tolerance)

All these strings (both in C and 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 convert between encodings as needed. Rendezvous software does not convert automatically.

## EBCDIC

For information about string encoding in EBCDIC environments, see tibrv_SetCodePages().

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