Unicode Tools

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To create a Unicode-based application, a developer needs tools. Most of the vendors interviewed defaulted to Microsoft NT for a native Unicode environment.

Development tools

Powersoft Power Builder will support Unicode on Windows NT. And of course Microsoft supports Visual Basic and C/C++ libraries with Unicode support. All tools for ADABAS D 6.2 are Unicode-enabled. Sybase will be offering a portable Unicode library for core string functions, conversions, and transformations.In the next year more Java applications will be built with JDBC portable interfaces to databases, setting the stage for an exciting era of Unicode enabled database applications.

Administration tools

Unicode enabled database administration tools should be available on Windows NT from Powersoft, Microsoft, and Oracle.The ADABAS D Unicode-enabled tools are all cross-platform. Sybase will be releasing a cross-platform developer's kit for Unicode that enables a non-native speaker to view multilingual data in the process of maintaining a database system.