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Chapter 3Gateway Localization
This chapter describes gateway localization and identifies the tasks required to
set up additional gateway locales. Topics include:
• Unicode and Netscape Support for UTF-8
• How the Gateway Selects a Character Set
• Special Characters
• Gateway Locales
• Setting Up Locales for Translation
Unicode and Netscape Support for UTF-8
Unicode is a character set containing all the characters of all the world’s major
languages. There are different standard encodings of Unicode, including UCS-2,
which is NT’s Unicode version, and UTF-8, the version of Unicode specified by
version 3 of the LDAP protocol.
Netscape products use UTF-8 in versions 2 and 3 of LDAP. Most software
included in the Directory Server product uses UTF-8 internally, and at
interfaces other than LDAP (for example in command-line parameters and LDIF
files).
