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## 22.3 About Translating Applications for Multibyte Languages

If your application must run in several languages simultaneously (such as Chinese and Japanese), consider configuring your database with a character set to support all of the languages.

`UTF8` and `AL32UTF8` are the character sets you can use to support almost all languages around the world.

Parent topic: Managing Application Globalization