Unicode and GB18030 Character Encoding Support
Crystal Reports for Visual Studio provides support for international characters in the following character set standards:
- Unicode
- GB18030
In order to understand how Crystal Reports supports Unicode and GB18030 encoding, you need to understand the three different views of characters (character repertoire, characters as "code points", characters as encoded data). You also need to understand the relationship between code points (a more precise term for encoded characters) and code units.