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Client APIs and toolsYou can use the HCL OneDB™ implementation of client APIs to develop applications for HCL OneDB™ database servers.
GLS User's GuideThese topics describe the Global Language Support (GLS) feature available in HCL® OneDB® products.The HCL OneDB™ GLS User's Guide describes the Global Language Support (GLS) feature available in HCL® OneDB® products.
HCL OneDB™ ESQL/C featuresThese topics explain how the GLS feature affects HCL OneDB™ ESQL/C, an SQL application programming interface (API).
Enhanced ESQL/C library functionsHCL OneDB™ SQL API products support locale-specific enhancements to the HCL OneDB™ ESQL/C library functions.
Numeric-format functionsThe HCL OneDB™ ESQL/C numeric-format functions are rfmtdec(), rfmtdouble(), and rfmtlong().
Support for multibyte charactersThe HCL OneDB™ ESQL/C numeric-format functions support multibyte characters in their format strings if your client locale supports a multibyte code set that defines these characters.

Support for multibyte characters

The HCL OneDB™ ESQL/C numeric-format functions support multibyte characters in their format strings if your client locale supports a multibyte code set that defines these characters.

These HCL OneDB ESQL/C functions and routines, however, interpret multibyte characters as literal characters. You cannot use multibyte equivalents of the ASCII formatting characters.

For example, the following HCL OneDB ESQL/C code fragment shows a call to the rfmtlong( ) function with the multibyte character A¹A² in the format string:

stcopy("A1A2***,***", fmtbuf);
rfmtlong(78941, fmtbuf, outbuf);
printf("Formatted value: %s\n", outbuf);

This code fragment generates the following output (if the client code set contains the A¹A² character):

Formatting value: A¹A²*78,941