Patent ID: 7051278
Filing Date: 2006-05-23
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An article of manufacture for use in a computer system for translating a source character string in a first character encoding into a target character string in a second character encoding, said article of manufacture comprising a computer-readable storage medium having a computer program embodied in said medium which causes the computer system to perform operations comprising: maintaining a plurality of specifications, wherein each specification has one of a plurality of scopes, and wherein each specification identifies at least one code page providing a mapping for source character strings in the first character encoding, and the scopes specify different portions of the program to which the code page identified by the specification applies; processing a source character string for which translation is requested in the program; determining one specification having one scope that is applicable to the processed source character string; and using the code page identified by the determined specification to translate the processed source character string in the first character encoding into the target character string in the second character encoding.