About the Transcode Service Business Service

The Transcode Service business service converts data from one character-set encoding to another. It can also validate conversions before they are performed.

The conversion implementation is portable, and does not rely on the operating system or any third-party products for codepage definitions. Supported error detection includes output-buffer overflow, memory-allocation failure, invalid data in the input encoding stream, and substitution in the output encoding stream.

Note: Windows fallback (that is, approximate) conversions are not supported.

The Transcode Service business service provides data conversion and validation of conversion between the following encodings:

  • ASCII

  • 874 (Thai)

  • 932 (Japanese)

  • 936 (Simplified Chinese)

  • 949 (Korean)

  • 950 (Traditional Chinese)

  • 1250

  • 1251

  • 1252 (Western European)

  • 1253

  • 1254

  • 1255

  • 1256

  • 1257

  • 1258

  • UTF-8

  • UTF-16LE

  • UTF-16BE

  • UTF-16

For a list of the languages supported by Siebel CRM, and the supported code pages for each database, see 1513102.1 (Article ID) on My Oracle Support. See also Siebel Global Deployment Guide, and for information about the certifications see the Certifications tab on My Oracle Support.