Xchanging has launched a DBCS version of Genius, its internet-enabled general lines insurance underwriting system, in Japan and China.
Creating a system for the Japanese and Chinese markets caused specific problems for the company, it said.
The language system of China and Japan uses twice as much memory on the system than Western languages and is considered by the company as “double-byte” languages, it said.
The company said storing characters in two bytes rather than one had considerable implications for the redesign of Genius.
However, Xchanging said the advantage the new system is that it can support the English language as well as Japanese or Chinese.
