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Appendix A Characters in Progress Sonic Names
General Rules
Some rules that apply generally in naming components in Sonic are the following:
● Names are case sensitive. For example, you can have two distinct users named
Administrator and administrator.
● When a name includes spaces, references to that name in scripts or command lines
must be enclosed in double quotes (" ").
● Restrictions in some names (such as, collections, components, containers, and
domains) might not be enforced at the time when the configuration name is created.
Character Sets
SonicMQ stores message data in Blob fields. Other field types used by SonicMQ include
char, varchar2, and long. SonicMQ is 100% Java, and Java completely supports Unicode.
It is important that each persistent storage mechanism must be installed and set up to use
the character set (code page) that is appropriate for the language used in the messaging
application.
Some persistent storage mechanism vendors let you choose character sets at install time
so that the selections exist for every persistent storage mechanism created under that
particular installation. For many persistent storage mechanisms, the character set chosen
when the persistent storage mechanism is created cannot be changed without re-creating
the persistent storage mechanism. Therefore the character set chosen should always be a
superset of the intended language or the equivalent of the messaging client’s operating
system’s native character set. Consult the vendor’s documentation for details on character
sets and national language support.
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