International Language Support - Analytics Database - Teradata Vantage

Database Introduction

Deployment
VantageCloud
VantageCore
Edition
Enterprise
IntelliFlex
VMware
Product
Analytics Database
Teradata Vantage
Release Number
17.20
Published
June 2022
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2023-09-27
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A character set (sometimes called a code page) represents characters on a computer. There are many character sets in use today.

Because different languages need different characters, character sets are often designed to support particular languages. Many different character sets may support the same language.

When computers or computer applications exchange character data, they must use the same character set or convert the data from one character set to the other during the transfer process. Otherwise, the data may have a different meaning after the transfer. The same is true for numeric data, but there are fewer ways to represent numbers, so it is a lesser problem.

A character set has characters it supports, a character string representation, and an implied collation based on this representation.