New in PowerBuilder 6 - Japanese Double-Byte Character Support in PowerBuilder

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Description

The Japanese DBCS version of PowerBuilder is compiled under Japanese Windows and is available as a separate 32-bit executable for the Japanese versions of Windows 95 and Windows NT. Double Byte Character Support support is currently enabled only in the Japanese versions of PowerBuilder and InfoMaker.

Purpose

Use the Japanese version of PowerBuilder to develop applications in Japanese. You will be able to build applications for deployment on both 16-bit and 32-bit versions of Windows.

Usage

In the Japanese versions, text in the graphical user interface and everything you type in displays in Japanese, and the string-handling functions are double-byte aware.

You must deploy applications built with the Japanese DBCS version of PowerBuilder with PowerBuilder Japanese deployment DLLs on Japanese Windows, Windows 95, or Windows NT.

You can migrate applications from the ANSI version of PowerBuilder to the Japanese version. If you add characters that are not supported in the ANSI version, they will not convert correctly if you migrate from Japanese to ANSI.