Server Access for EJB has been internationalized so that it can be localized for a particular locale. A locale is the part of a user's environment that describes conventions specific to the end user's particular country, language, or territory.
When the WebSphere Access EJB transfers data from a location that uses one character code set to a location that uses a different code set, the system performs character conversion to preserve the meaning of the data. The Java run-time environment within the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) represents data in the Unicode character code set. Unicode contains encodings for characters in most known character code sets (both single-byte and multibyte). Most components in the InterChange Server system are written in Java. Therefore, when data is transferred between most InterChange Server components, there is no need for character conversion.