Internationalization

The language supports single-byte and multibyte internationalization.

The language supports single-byte such as ISO-8859-1, as well as multibyte character sets such as BIG5 or UTF-8.

Length semantics to define variables and manipulate character string data can be based on byte or character units.

Labels and messages can be separated from programs and forms, to customize your application for specific subsets of for the user population, whether it is for a particular language or a particular business segment.

The source files (4gl, per, 4ad, and so on) can be written in a specific encoding. However, we recommend you to keep sources in ASCII, and store locale-dependent strings in external strings files (str).