Description: To support users in many different languages, Derby's SQL parser understands all Unicode characters and allows any Unicode character or number to be used in an identifier.
Keywords: Unicode support

# SQL parser support for Unicode

To support users in many different languages, Derby's SQL parser understands all Unicode characters and allows any Unicode character or number to be used in an identifier.

Derby does not attempt to ensure that the characters in identifiers are valid in the database's locale.

Parent topic: Localizing Derby
Related concepts
Other components with locale support
Messages libraries