Setting up NCIM to use multibyte characters

You must configure the NCIM database to use multibyte characters, such as Simplified Chinese characters, if you want the NCIM database to store multibyte data. Such configuration is useful when, for example, you need to enter multibyte characters into the Description field of a poll definition.

About this task

If you want NCIM to store characters from languages that require multibyte data, however, you must ensure that the NCIM database is using the following settings:

Db2®

If you are running Network Manager in a locale that supports multibyte characters, then there is no need to make any configuration changes. For example, both of the following locales support multibyte characters when NCIM is running on Db2:

```
LANG=zh_CN.gb18030
LC_ALL=zh_CN.gb18030
```
```
LANG=en_US.utf8
LC_ALL=en_US.utf8
```