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

Turning off character set translation on a database server

Character set translation is turned on by default. If you do not require character set translation, you can disable it in the database server command using the -ct- option.

To disable character set translation on a database server

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

  dbsrv9 -ct- asademo.db

For more information, see -ct server option.