# Locale (Unicode)

In this dialog box, based on the languages that you need to support, you can select one of these locales:

- Single Byte locale
- Multibyte locale
- Unicode

## Single Byte

ANSI-standard or Single Byte strings are stored as unsigned byte-characters, each byte containing a different character. If you select Single Byte, you must be aware that the character sets from which you can choose are limited to a maximum of 256 different characters. This is sufficient for the English and (most) European languages. Note that Single Byte strings can cause issues for languages that have alphabets with more than 256 characters. Use the drop down arrow to select a character set. The default character set is International (ISO_BIN1). For example; in case of an English installation, select Single Byte and ISO_BIN1 (the default).

ISO_BIN1 is a binary sort order of ISO 8859-1. ISO_BIN2 is a binary sort order of ISO 8859-2 and so on.

## Multibyte

Multibyte can be used as a solution to the 256-characters limitation. Multibyte characters can use one or two bytes to represent a character and requires double the amount of disk space. Multibyte is mainly used to support Asian languages, which often have many characters.

## Unicode

Unicode is a unification of currently available character sets and therefore can support multiple languages within one /baanerp/fullversion environment. Unicode provides a unique number for every character, no matter what the platform, no matter what the program, no matter what the language is.

If you decide to choose the Unicode character set you must also have selected earlier in this installation process a porting set that is Unicode enabled. For more information about Unicode, see the Unicode website http://www.unicode.org/.