Character Encoding (UNIX/Linux)

The ICU converter provides the character encoding mapping that CA SDM uses when transcoding character data between Unicode and the operating system character encoding.

Note: This configuration page is only available on UNIX and Linux systems.

Configure the Character Encoding page with the following options:

Use detected converter

Auto-detection has determined the converter available for your UNIX/Linux system. Leave selected if you want to use this converter.

Specify a converter

The ICU converter name field provides feedback of the converter CA SDM has determined best matches the operating environment. It also provides a means of overriding the auto-detected converter by specifying a converter name. Converter names are not case sensitive.

You can find a list of ICU converter names and aliases grouped by industry standards using the ICU Converter Explorer tool at the following web site:

http://ibm.com/software/globalization/icu/demo/converters

Two converter names should be given special attention, if these appear as auto-detected:

US-ASCII

Appears when the following condition occur:

The auto-detection could not determine a matching converter and defaulted to US-ASCII. In this case, the ICU Converter Explorer or an equivalent tool should be used to determine a converter best matching the character encoding of the operating system's locale. Its name should be entered into the ICU converter name field.
The character set of the operating system locale only supports a limited 7-bit character encoding such as "C", "POSIX", "US-ASCII", "ISO646-US", and so on. In this case, we recommend that you select a different operating system locale which utilizes a character set encoding that supports a wider selection of characters. See your operating system documentation for details for changing the locale environment for the user or shell used to invoke the CA SDM configuration program. A matching locale environment should be used for all subsequent accounts used to launch and operate CA SDM.

UTF-8

Specifies to encode Unicode as UTF-8.

Important! CA SDM must run on an UTF-8 locale on UNIX platforms.

Default HTTP character set

Specifies the character set used on web pages sent from CA SDM web servers. This value is specified in the web page's HTTP character set declaration as the charset parameter in the HTTP Content-Type header, and is described in RFC 2616 Hypertext Transfer Protocol - HTTP/1.1.

The configuration application attempts to determine whether this value is an alias of the ICU Unicode converter specified in ICU Unicode converter name. If it is not, you can override the value.