Multibyte character sets

Multi-byte character sets are appropriately and thoroughly taken into consideration in the database, application server, and browser tiers of Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation. To represent all the characters in a language, it is sometimes necessary to use 2 (double byte) or 3 (multi-byte) bytes for each character. The longer character representations can, however, pose space and transmission challenges during application development.

The Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation architecture ensures that: