PowerServer supports the Unicode character encoding in PowerBuilder 2019 R3. You can display characters from multiple languages on the same page of a Web application.
String related functions
PowerServer supports the string related functions in PowerBuilder 2019 R3. The following changes, made since PowerBuilder 10, are also supported.
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Modified processing of string-manipulation functions.
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Asc and Char functions.
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Blob and String conversion functions.
Support ANSI and Unicode database
PowerServer supports both ANSI and Unicode database. For Unicode database it is recommended to use iAnywhere and jConnect driver because using JDBC-ODBC driver with Unicode databases may cause problems.
Calling external functions
PowerServer supports both Unicode encoding and ANSI encoding when the Web application calls external functions.
