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Verifying System Preferences and Other Settings for Database Code Page

After you complete installing Database Configuration Utilities and configuring the Siebel Database, you must verify system preferences and other settings for the Siebel application that indicate whether you are using Unicode, and indicate the code page you are using.

For more information about code pages, see Planning RDBMS Installation and Configuration and Configuring the RDBMS. See also Siebel System Requirements and Supported Platforms on Oracle Technology Network and Siebel Global Deployment Guide.

The procedure below assumes you have already installed Siebel Tools and entered license key information.

• For information about installing Siebel Tools, see Installing Siebel Tools.
• For information about starting Siebel Tools and entering license key information, see Verifying Successful Installation of Siebel Tools.

To verify system preferences and other settings

1. Launch Siebel Tools and navigate to Screens, System Administration, then System Preferences.
2. Look for System Preference Name = Enterprise DB Server Code Page. Verify that the value has been set correctly, based on the value that you selected during installation of the database server components (see Installing the Siebel Database Components).

   NOTE:  The value of Enterprise DB Server Code Page must be in lowercase, for example, utf-8 or utf-16.

   Possible values for the system preference are listed in the table below:

   Value	Language	Database
   utf-81 (for Unicode)	All	Oracle
   utf-162 (for Unicode)	All	DB2 UDB
   cp932 (or equivalent)	Japanese	Oracle, DB2 UDB
   cp1252 (or equivalent)	Western European	All

   1The Oracle database character set may have a different value, although the value entered must be utf-8. 2Also known as UCS-2, although the value entered must be utf-16.

3. Verify that the column UNICD_DATATYPS_FLG in the table S_APP_VER is set correctly. The flag value must be in uppercase. Possible values for UNICD_DATATYPS_FLG are listed in the table below:

   Code Page	Database	Value
   Non-Unicode code page	All	N
   Unicode	Oracle	8
   Unicode	DB2 UDB	Y