Some OpenEdge products can run directly in Unicode (that is, when -cpinternal is set to UTF-8). Other OpenEdge products cannot, but can run in a code page that OpenEdge can convert to and from Unicode.

The following products can run in Unicode:

  • ActiveX client
  • PAS for OpenEdge
  • Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge
  • Batch client (GUI and character)
  • Database server
  • ABL compiler and r-code
  • ABL GUI client (in interactive and batch modes)
  • GUI Procedure Editor
  • Java client
  • SQL