Character-based data considerations

Character-based data, such as user IDs and passwords, are stored and manipulated as strings of Unicode characters by the Java™ classes and methods.

This character data is converted from Unicode into UTF-8 (Universal Character Set Transformation Format-8) before being sent to the ISAM policy server and stored in the user registry. Similarly, data from the user registry and the policy server is received in UTF-8 and converted into Unicode. Unicode and UTF-8 both allow any character in any locale to be uniquely represented.

Parent topic: Use the administration API