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G2 Character Representation

G2 represents all symbol and text in a knowledge base using the Unicode Worldwide Character Standard, which provides support for multiple languages as described in Chapter 40, G2 Character Support.

Working with Multiple Character Sets

While G2 supports the Unicode character set, numerous other character sets exist that are neither Unicode-based, nor Unicode compliant.

To coexist with diverse character sets, KBs require the ability to translate:

Imported characters into Unicode.
Exported characters to a given character set of a non-Unicode environment.

G2 provides the TEXT-CONVERSION-STYLE class, described next, to perform character translation to and from Unicode, along with numerous text conversion functions, described in Character Set Conversion Functions.

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