Introduction

This document describes the character sets that can be used in the CAST Services (CAST Storage Service, Analysis Service, Dashboard Service and Management Service). For further information, see also Collation compatibility between server hosting the Analysis Service and potential participating Servers in Appendix - RDBMS requirements and configuration.

Supported Languages with Unicode

The supported languages with Unicode are:

•     Albanian
•     Belarusian     
  
•     Bosnian      
  
•     Bulgarian
•     Catalan     
  
•     Croatian       
  
•     Czech       
•     Danish 
•     Dutch     
•     Estonian 
  
•     Faroese     
•     Finnish 
•     French      
•     German      
•     English 
•     Greek 
•     Greenlandic Inuktitut      
•     Hungarian 
•     Icelandic      
•     Irish      
•     Italian      
•     Latvian 
  
•     Lithuanian 
•     Luxembourgish      
•     Macedonian   
•     Maltese 
•     Moldovan      
  
•     Norwegian 
•     Polish     
•     Portuguese       
•     Romanian 
•     Russian       
  
•     Serbian 
•     Slovak 
•     Slovenian      
•     Spanish
  
•     Swedish 
  
•     Turkish
  
•     Ukrainian

Any non-supported character that is present in the source code file encoded with one of the supported encodings, will be converted to an arbitrary supported character by CAST. The impact on the analysis result of this conversion depends on the situation in which the conversion occurs and on the character to which the conversion occurred. Therefore, the impact is unpredictable in a general way as for example:

• If the conversion occurs only in source code comments, there is no impact on the analysis result.
• If the conversion occurs inside an identifier and the converted identifier is no longer unique due to the conversion, resolution errors can occur.

Code page equivalence for Unicode Character Sets

The language of the code page used in the Operating System hosting the CAST Analysis workstation (the machine on which the CAST Management Studio is run from) must be the same as the language used for the source code to be analyzed. For example on a OS in Turkish you must analyze source code that is Unicode encoded for the Turkish language.

Storage Services

Oracle Database Server

The following character sets are those corresponding to a single byte, ASCII with '€' coding. They can be used with CAST products:

Microsoft SQL Server

With Microsoft SQL Server, CAST recommends using Windows collations.

Linked to the Windows locales, the code page '1252' is suitable for Western Europe, the Americas and Australia. In addition, the CS (Case sensitive) and AS (Accent Sensitive) attributes must be active.

CAST Storage Services 2

The CAST Storage Service (CSS) 2 Relational Data Base Management System can be used to store analysis results of Unicode encoded source files provided the files use one of the below mentioned encodings:

 Supported Unicode encodings:

• UTF-8 without BOM
• UTF-8 with BOM
• UTF-16 with BOM

Dashboard Service

 The Dashboard Service supports the following Unicode encodings:

• UTF-8 without BOM
• UTF-8 with BOM
• UTF-16 with BOM

Analysis Service and Management Service

Most of the components of the Analysis Service and Management Service (see the list below) support the following Unicode encodings:

• UTF-8 without BOM
• UTF-8 with BOM
• UTF-16 with BOM

CAST Analyzers

The following CAST analyzers can analyze or work with Unicode encoded source files provided the files use one of the above mentioned encodings:

• C/C++
• .NET > Please note that C/S links are not resolved when the T-SQL database collation is not the same as the server collation, and the machine collation is different then the server collation.
• ASP
• Visual Basic
• Universal Analyzer/Universal Importer
• J2EE (including EJB, Web Services and CAST Script)
• Mainframe
• ABAP
• PL/SQL (SQL Analyzer)
• DB2 z/OS (DB2 Analyzer)
• DB2 UDB (DB2 Analyzer)  
• T-SQL

CAST Components

The following CAST tools can work with Unicode encoded source files provided the files use one of the below mentioned encodings:

• CAST Server Manager
• CAST Management Studio, including:
  
  • Reference Patterns
  • Update Knowledge Base (Analysis Service) Assistant
  • XXL Table Quality Rule injection
  • Background Facts upload
  • Environment Profile Manager
• CAST Architecture Checker
• CAST Transaction Configuration Center
• CAST Engineering Dashboard
• CAST Application Analytics Dashboard
• CAST Discovery Portal
• CAST Report Generator
• CAST Logs
• CAST Delivery Manager Tool
• Command line (CAST Management Studio/CAST Delivery Manager Tool)
• Metrics Assistant

All other non-mentioned CAST components may provoke an arbitrary error when analyzing or working with a Unicode encoded source code file.