VantageCloud Lake is significantly limited in its support of localization and customization of international language support on compute clusters. Teradata recommends that only international customers that can make use of UTF8 or UTF16 sessions use characters outside of the seven-bit ASCII repertoire. See Client Character Set Compatibility by Client Type for character sets that are supported on the primary cluster.
VantageCloud Lake supports the use of a variety of international character sets, which allows:
- Users to load and retrieve data in their local character set.
- Data to be exchanged through the database between different client character formats.
- Collation of character data