Character based application needs to support Cyrillic (Russian and Bulgarian) characters

This is the current setup:

We have one large iseries partition where many companies in different countries across Europe share one common code base (i.e. the same program library for all).

Each country has its own database library.

We are now implementing the package for a Bulgarian company. This is the first company that uses a Cyrillic character set with our package. Until now all languages implemented have been using a character set in the "latin-1" family.

Right now we are trying hard to figure out what we need to install to get this working.

While testing with client access sessions and users that we have set up with CCSID 1025 we have found that we can not see or key any Cyrillic's that way. I assume that we may need a specially adapted version of client access to get this working. Can anyone verify that?

What with Windows? Do we need a Bulgarian version of Windows as well?

We create all database files with CCSID 37 and control the rest by user profile and device attributes.

Any other ideas on how to set this up?

(Aside for a full-blown unicode conversion. We ARE working on that as well but there is simply not enough time to get that project ready in just a couple of months.)


Med vänlig hälsning / Best regards
Åke Olsson

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