ASA Database Administration Guide
  International Languages and Character Sets
    International language and character set tasks

Starting a database server using character set translation

Character set translation takes place if the client and server locales are different. Character set translation is turned on by default for database servers that are Adaptive Server Anywhere version 8.0 or higher. For database servers that are version 7.x or earlier, you must explicitly turn on character set conversion in the database server command.

To enable character set translation on a database server

• Start the database server using the -ct+ option. For example:

  dbsrv9 -ct+ asademo.db