Pervasive PSQL accepts Shift-JIS (Japanese Industrial Standard) encoded double-byte characters in file paths. (Shift-JIS is an encoding technique commonly used for Japanese computers.) In addition, you can store Shift-JIS double-byte characters in records and sort them using the Japanese ISR table described in International Sort Rules. Other multi-byte characters can be stored in records, although ISR tables are currently not available to sort these records according to culturally correct rules. Your use of double-byte characters does not affect the operation of Pervasive PSQL applications.